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Commensality

Commensality \Com`men*sal"i*ty\, n. Fellowship at table; the act or practice of eating at the same table. [Obs.] ``Promiscuous commensality.''
--Sir T. Browne.

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commensality

n. (context obsolete English) The act of eating together.

Usage examples of "commensality".

Which is an odd thing to call a world but the Ringers who settled worlds like that, worlds away and away from the empires and the commanderies and the commensalities, away away from the traderoads and the sweeplines, those Flingers were without doubt the oddest folk a sun ever shone on.