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Danish to English translations [PRO] Other / employee at court or in large households | |||||||
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4 | table-decker |
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table setter / plate setter / livery jacket |
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table-decker Explanation: According to the Dictionary of the Dano-Norwegian and English Languages, by A. Larsen, Gyldendal 1910. |
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Reference: table setter / plate setter / livery jacket Reference information: Barack Obama's visit to UK and Ireland: as it happened day one ... www.telegraph.co.uk/.../Barack-Obamas-visit-to-UK-and-Irela... This evening's state banquet will require seven hours just to lay the table, apparently. CNN's royal expert says that the ***table-setter*** uses a tape measure to get the distance between glasses exactly right. rule of thumb - Wiktionary en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rule_of_thumb Another theory notes that English royal banquet ***plate setters*** used the distance of their thumbs to equally space each plate from the table edge. Rule of thumb dictionary definition | rule of thumb defined www.yourdictionary.com/rule-of-thumb Some suggested origins include the fact that the inch originated as the distance between the base of the thumbnail and the first joint, the practice of approximating the general direction of the wind by wetting the thumb then raising it in the air, and the rule of English Royal banquet ***plate setters*** using the distance of the thumb to equally space each plate from the table edge. Butler Did It - books.google.com/books?isbn=1426881835 Kasey Michaels - 2010 - Fiction Riley said, pulling down at his livery jacket. “Would there be something you'd be wanting?” “Yes, but as it would probably get me hanged, I'll forgo the pleasure. What the Butler Saw: Two Hundred and Fifty Years of the Servant ... - books.google.co.ve/books?isbn=0571295185 E. S. Turner - 2012 - History Sir Edward Hulton tells of a nouveau riche hostess who replaced her set of footmen with a row of handsome, strapping 'foot girls,' who wore blue livery jackets, ... Baldwinsville NY Gazette Farmers Journal 1908 ... - FultonHistory.com fultonhistory.com/.../Baldwinsville%20NY%20Gazette%20Farmers%20Journal%201908%20Jan... The emperor of Austria holds lengthy dinners In detestation ... the emperor's "tafeldecker," or grooms of the table, are the chief gainers by this arrangement, as all food left over goes to them as a perquisite. askSam Web Publisher wwii-server.history.fsu.edu/scripts/as_web6.exe?Command... But the old ***"Table-setter" (Tafeldecker- a forefather whose job it was to set the table for some royalty***. He was supposedly extremely quick and funny) is still alive ... -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 3 hrs (2014-08-17 01:39:48 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- formal table setting: Dinner party 101: What I learned from Charles the Butler (no relaxing!) www.theglobeandmail.com/life/.../dinner.../article11667912/ A good chunk of that time was spent setting the table, measuring tape in hand. (Charles the Butler is particularly pernickety about symmetry.) “One of the first rules of ***formal table setting*** is the 24-inch [61-centimetre] rule,” he writes. “This refers to the ideal amount of space from the centre of one plate to the centre of the next plate, allowing the guest plenty of elbow room.” 10 Facts About Dinner with the Queen - United Kingdom Travel gouk.about.com/od/.../10-Facts-About-Dinner-With-The-Queen.htm With an eye for possible TV coverage from above, the position of everything on the table is measured with a tape measure. |
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