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high tables

high tables is the plural of high table.

Meaning of high table

Noun

high table (plural high tables)

  1. A dining table for the use of fellows and their guests at certain traditional and prestigious academic institutions.
    • No one feeds at the high table except the dons and the gentlemen-commoners, who are undergraduates in velvet caps and silk gowns[.]1859–1861, [Thomas Hughes], chapter I, in Tom Brown at Oxford: […], part 1st, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, published 1861, →OCLC, page 12

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What is high tables the plural of?
High tables is the plural of high table.

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  10. high taper
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