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reistafel

reistafel is the alternative form of rijsttafel.

Meaning of rijsttafel

Noun

rijsttafel (plural rijsttafels)

  1. A large meal originating in colonial Indonesia composed of many different dishes with rice as the main ingredient; several side-dishes such as krupuk, acar and serundeng are served.
    • The famous rijsttafel, love-hate legacy of Dutch imperial days—at its most numbing brilliance it required 23 men and a boy to serve—[…]1972 September 11, Gael Greene, “The Insatiable Critic: Ramayana east of Krakatoa”, in New York Magazine, volume 5, number 37, page 85

Forms of reistafel

pluralreistafels

Questions about reistafel

What is reistafel the alternative form of?
Reistafel is the alternative form of rijsttafel.

Words near reistafel in the dictionary

  1. reissuers
  2. reissues
  3. reissuing
  4. reissuings
  5. reist
  6. reistafel
  7. reistafels
  8. reisted
  9. Reister
  10. Reisters
  11. Reisterstown

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Adapted from Wiktionary: reistafel (page history and authors); rijsttafel (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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