high table

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A dining table for the use of fellows and their guests at certain traditional and prestigious academic institutions.
    — No one feeds at the high table except the dons and the gentlemen-commoners, who are undergraduates in velvet caps and silk gowns[.]

词形变化

high tables plural

词源

It is usually on a raised platform at the end of the dining hall, hence higher than the other tables.
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