Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A tablecompanion; a guest at dinner or other meal.
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Examples
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You will believe; yes, when trencher-mate and bedfellow are stricken at your side, and yet no man shall be able to say at what instant the avenger's shadow passed between, or catch the faintest sound of his retreating footsteps.
The Doomsman Van Tassel Sutphen 1903
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