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dinner service

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dinner service
a set of matching plates, dishes, etc., suitable for serving a meal to a certain number of people


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The dinner service was of plain white earthenware; the soup, made after the traditions of the late cure, was the most concentrated kind of broth that was ever set to simmer by any mortal cook.
The Country Doctor by de Balzac, Honore View in context
It was his own fault; but it was a china plate, the last of the dinner service that had belonged to his grandmother, old Vixen Tod.
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Then he looked about for something to pour the soup into; Dantes' entire dinner service consisted of one plate -- there was no alternative.
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