at table
Meaning
at table
Eating a meal at a table, especially with others.
sitting at table with a servant
Examples
Wine is good, but water is preferable at table.
Children have a fastidiousness that time is slow to cure. It is to be wondered, for example, whether if the elderly were half as hungry as children are they would yet find so many things at table to be detestable.
Do not speak of repulsive matters at table.
Who dangles after the great is the last at table and the first to be cuffed.
At table bashfulness is out of place.
Have no respect at table and in bed.