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/tˈeɪbəl tɔk/ Listen

Table talk

noun

Conversation during a meal.

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"Table talk" Quotes from Famous Books

... lighter interests, such as we find in the passage: "Never take an iambus for a Christian name. A trochee, or tribrach, will do very well. Edith and Rotha are my favourite names for women." What we want most of all in table talk is to get an author into the confession album. Coleridge's Table Talk would have stood a worse chance of immortality were it not for the fact that he occasionally came down out ...

— The Art of Letters • Robert Lynd

... would really dread in England would be the being lionised, and being compelled to speak and preach here, there, and everywhere. And yet he would have no power to say nay. But the cold would shrivel him up, and society—dinners, table talk—would bore him, and he would pine for his warmth and his books. Not a bit the less does he dearly ...

— Life of John Coleridge Patteson • Charlotte M. Yonge

Words linked to "Table talk" : conversation