refectory table

English

Noun

refectory table (plural refectory tables)

1. A very long dining table mostly used in institutions (e.g., schools, colleges, monasteries).

   Hypernyms: dining table < table < furniture

   • 1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow, 1st US edition, New York: Viking Press, →ISBN:

     With a clattering of chairs, upended shell cases, benches, and ottomans, Pirate's mob gather at the shores of the great refectory table, a southern island well across a tropic or two from chill Croydon.