Round Table
See also: round table and roundtable
English
Etymology
From Middle English rounde table, table rounde, a calque of Old French table rounde.
Proper noun
- (Arthurian legend) King Arthur's table in the Arthurian legend, around which he and his knights congregate, all having equal status since the table has no head.
- 1905, Howard Pyle, The Story of the Champions of the Round Table[1], New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, page 21:
- Then, after a while, King Arthur said: "Let us go and see if, haply, this youth's name is marked upon any of the seats of the Round Table, for I think it should be there."
Translations
King Arthur's table
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