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  • noun Alternative form of table talk.

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Examples

  • Later, he turned to what might be called table-talk -- reminiscences of literary acquaintances and other friendships.

    Book Review Roundup: Rap, Eloise, Seabiscuit And Doughnuts The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • Later, he turned to what might be called table-talk -- reminiscences of literary acquaintances and other friendships.

    Book Review Roundup: Rap, Eloise, Seabiscuit And Doughnuts The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • Later, he turned to what might be called table-talk -- reminiscences of literary acquaintances and other friendships.

    Rap, Eloise, Seabiscuit And Doughnuts The Huffington Post 2010

  • Later, he turned to what might be called table-talk -- reminiscences of literary acquaintances and other friendships.

    Rap, Eloise, Seabiscuit And Doughnuts The Huffington Post 2010

  • So, Sunday morning breakfast table-talk included the presidential candidates and I was surprised when my daughter was the one who actually sparked conversation on the topic.

    Michelle Renee: Politics: A Big Jumbled Mess 2008

  • Talking politics with our teens should definitely be on the table-talk agenda, in my opinion.

    Michelle Renee: Politics: A Big Jumbled Mess 2008

  • And even these are not allowed to pall upon the mental palate, being mingled with anecdotes and short tales, such as the Hermits (iii. 125), with biographical or literary episodes, acroamata, table-talk and analects where humorous Rabelaisian anecdote finds a place; in fact the fabliau or novella.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • This is delicious, civilized literary entertainment, the table-talk of a connoisseur..

    The Critical Library: Michael Dirda William Harryman 2007

  • Your table-talk is such as persons of the strictest principles may hear, and join in: your guests, and your friends are, generally speaking, persons of the genteelest life, and of the best manners.

    Pamela 2006

  • Oddly enough, I missed the first 15 minutes of your presentation on digital archives because I'd heard as much drivel in a table-talk as I could stand.

    Beware Ego Centric Conference Sessions 2006

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