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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The table on which supper is spread.

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Examples

  • "Do you remember, Flann," said she, "how we used to sit at the supper-board in the house of Crom Duv?"

    The King of Ireland's Son Padraic Colum 1926

  • All the rest of the guests at the supper-board were men, -- and all of them members of the Revolutionary Committee.

    Temporal Power Marie Corelli 1889

  • So he took an opportunity of slipping a sweet-cake into his pouch, from the supper-board, with which he slily stole to

    Heroes Every Child Should Know Hamilton Wright Mabie 1880

  • He stood at his own open door looking at these things, and inside his wife Mysie was laying the supper-board with haver bread and cheese and milk.

    Scottish sketches Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr 1875

  • Here the dispute had an end, forasmuch as that my lord the duke, leader of the embassy, hearing the Brandenburger's fierce voice, came in haste from the supper-board to restore peace; and as he led away the Junker it was plain to all that he was taking him sharply to task.

    Margery — Complete Georg Ebers 1867

  • Here the dispute had an end, forasmuch as that my lord the duke, leader of the embassy, hearing the Brandenburger's fierce voice, came in haste from the supper-board to restore peace; and as he led away the Junker it was plain to all that he was taking him sharply to task.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works Georg Ebers 1867

  • Follow me to the supper-board, lads; we have had a heavy day's work!

    The Vikings of Helgeland The Prose Dramas Of Henrik Ibsen, Vol. III. Henrik Ibsen 1867

  • Here the dispute had an end, forasmuch as that my lord the duke, leader of the embassy, hearing the Brandenburger's fierce voice, came in haste from the supper-board to restore peace; and as he led away the Junker it was plain to all that he was taking him sharply to task.

    Margery — Volume 04 Georg Ebers 1867

  • Barbara came in with the supper-board, and stared when Robin said, "Good even, Barbara."

    Robin Tremayne A Story of the Marian Persecution Emily Sarah Holt 1864

  • Had it been evening, I would have stolen softly to some lighted window of the old farmhouse, and peeped darkling in, to see all their well-known faces round the supper-board.

    The Blithedale Romance Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

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