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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
table-d'hote

"common table for guests at a hotel," French, table-d'hôte, literally "table of the host;" see table (n.) + host (n.).

Usage examples of "table-d'hote".

I was putting my jewellery together in a casket when Clairmont announced a tradesman and his daughter, a pretty girl whom I had remarked at dinner, for since the departure of my fair Venetian I had dined at the table-d'hote by way of distraction.