Definitions
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. the table about which sat King Arthur and his knights. See Knights of the Round Table, under Knight.
- n. See Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a meeting of peers for discussion and exchange of views
- n. (legend) the circular table for King Arthur and his knights
- n. a meeting of peers for discussion and exchange of views
Examples
“The problem was that she didn't, any more than what I felt for her could at worst be described as lust, and at best as unrealistic Round Table chivalry.”
“Alas, said Sir Gawaine and Sir Gareth, now is this realm wholly mischieved, and the noble fellowship of the Round Table shall be disparpled: so they departed.”
“He had an aristocrat’s thick silver hair you had to have had a relative at the original Round Table to get hair like that, he often joked, a keen, original wit, and a gift for strategy.”
“His previous book, Sons of Providence: The Brown Brothers, the Slave Trade, and the American Revolution, won the George Washington Book Prize and the American Revolution Round Table Book Prize.”
“How King Arthur handled Sir Urre, and after him many other knights of the Round Table”
“And then every knight of the Round Table that were there at that time present made them ready to be at that jousts at All Hallowmass, and thither drew many knights of divers countries.”
“How Queen Guenever rode a-Maying with certain knights of the Round Table and clad all in green.”
“l'Epinette Amoureuse", in which he relates the story of his own life, and "Méliador", a poem in imitation of the Round Table cycle, etc.”
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
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