Plates, dishes, etc

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n. a service for serving dinner [syn: dinner set ]

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noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Pekin dinner service , silver cutlery, crystal glasses, showy white napkins, all in order. ▪ She washed up the dinner service , which she'd left in the sink to soak. ▪ The great Leinster dinner service of 1747 was his swansong: ...