at table

at table

1. Eating a meal at a table, especially with others.

   sitting at table with a servant

   • 1876, Lady Barker, The Kafir at Home, printed in The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, volume 23 (87?), page 221 :

     […] but anything would have been better than sitting at table with a thing only fit for a May-day sweep on one's head.

   • 1956 [1880], Johanna Spyri, Heidi, translation of original by Eileen Hall, page 92:

     But she managed not to cry for she knew that would not do at table.

• abattle, abettal