table drink

English

Noun

table drink (plural table drinks)

  1. (uncommon) Any type of inexpensive beverage that is consumed during a meal.
    • 1662, Henry Stubbe, The Indian Nectar, Or a Discourse Concerning Chocolata: Wherein the Nature of the Cacaonut is Examined: The Ways of Compounding and Preparing Chocolata are Enquired Into Together with a Spagyrical Analysis of the Cacao-nut, Performed by Monsieur Le Bebure, page 115:
      Some there are, who have taken it uſually, inſtead of Wine [which is their table-drink in Spain] at Diner, and Supper
    • 1817, Lady Morgan (Sydney), Sir Thomas Charles Morgan, France, Volume 1, page 65:
      The thin light vin du pays is the table-drink of the poorest peasantry.
    • 1917, Forrest Crissey, The Story of Foods, page 402:
      One of the most delicious of all table drinks, cocoa - a favorite with children in every part of the world, especially in Europe has a history that reaches back to the Spanish conquest of Mexico and contains many dark and forbidding chapters.
    • 1994, Waterloo Region Record:
      A low rate of arterial sclerosis among the people of southern France, where red rather than white wine is the preferred table drink.
  2. (uncommon) Any type of drink that is associated with bottle service.

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