dinner-wagon

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noun A set of light shelves, as a dumb-waiter, usually mounted on casters and easily movable, for the service of a dining-room. Compare dumb-waiter.

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This dinner-wagon also holds the salad-bowl and spoon, of silver, the salad-plates, and the silver bread-basket, in which should be thin slices of brown bread - and-butter.

Manners and Social Usages Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood
A china dish in three compartments, with cheese and butter and biscuits to be passed with the salad, the extra sauces, the jellies for the meats, the relishes, the radishes and celery, the olives and the sifted sugar-all things needed as accessaries of the dinner-table-can be put on this dinner-wagon, or _tagere_, as it is called in France.

Manners and Social Usages Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood
On this dinner-wagon are placed all the dessert - plates and the finger-glasses.

Manners and Social Usages Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood
Sometimes he would go quickly to his bed, which we saw represented the dinner-wagon, or sideboard, and bring imaginary dishes from there and hand them.

J. Cole Emma Gellibrand
On a rosewood dinner-wagon, in front of the chimney-piece, were one or two knick-knacks, the sick girl's latest fancies -- the little jug and the

Renée Mauperin Edmond de Goncourt 1859