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refectory tables

refectory tables is the plural of refectory table.

Meaning of refectory table

Noun

refectory table (plural refectory tables)

  1. A very long dining table mostly used in institutions (e.g., schools, colleges, monasteries).
    • With a clattering of chairs, upended shell cases, benches, and ottomans, Pirate's mob gather at the shores of the great refectory table, a southern island well across a tropic or two from chill Croydon.1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow, 1st US edition, New York: Viking Press, →ISBN

Questions about refectory tables

What is refectory tables the plural of?
Refectory tables is the plural of refectory table.

Words near refectory tables in the dictionary

  1. refectorian
  2. refectorians
  3. refectories
  4. refectory
  5. refectory table
  6. refectory tables
  7. refects
  8. refed
  9. refederalization
  10. refederalize
  11. refederalized

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