dinner-set

Introduced by a brother-artist to Flaxman, he joined him in furnishing designs for the famous Wedgwood porcelain, and so one dinner-set gave bread and butter to genius, and nightingales 'tongues to wealth.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864 Various

If any part of a dinner-set or tea-set be broken at a marriage or baptismal feast, it is a sign that misfortunes are coming.

The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales James Grant

A complete dinner-set for a party of twenty-four costs twelve thousand dollars.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867 Various

I shall issue the necessary orders to have my large golden dinner-set either sold or pawned.

Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia F. [Translator] Jordan

The king, moreover, gave up very considerable resources by sending the large gold dinner-set to the mint to be converted into coin, which he did not use for himself or his household, but paid into the state treasury.

Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia F. [Translator] Jordan

"And the parlor will be done in red and green," I put in, eagerly, "and where there will be an ingrowing sideboard in the dining-room that won't fit in with the quaint old dinner-set at all, and a kitchenette just off that, in which the great iron pots and kettles that used to hold the family dinners will be monstrously out of place --"

Dawn O'Hara, the Girl Who Laughed Edna Ferber 1926

An article of equipment used as a tea-kettle and dinner-set.

Over the Top Arthur Guy Empey 1923

He told them also about her wonderful dinner-set of china, which had cost thirty thousand dollars, and was as fragile as a humming-bird's wing.

The Metropolis Upton Sinclair 1923

"Do you think we can get that Spode dinner-set out all right?"

The Slipper Point Mystery 1921

In 1773 he began his famous dinner-set for Empress Catherine II of Russia, which had upon it over twelve hundred enameled views of English estates, and for which she paid three thousand pounds.

The Story of Porcelain Sara Ware Bassett 1920