tableside

[tey-buhl-sahyd]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

alongside or at a table, especially in a restaurant.
tableside dessert trays; a dish prepared tableside.

noun

the area around or beside a table.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of tableside¹

First recorded in 1850–55; table ( def. ) + side ¹ ( def. )

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Example Sentences

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In “The Rat Race,” she flirts with a chatty restaurant server making tableside guacamole, who, like her, hate-watches a reality show called “Bi Bingo.”

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At NEHIMA, all tea is served made-to-order, tableside, in pieces from the owner’s collection of Japanese ceramics.

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“I want to make people laugh, I want to make people cry,” says Burke, 41, who used to perform tableside card tricks.

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High-end restaurants even joined in on the fun by revamping — and upcharging — their measly bread-and-butter courses to $38 tableside “butter service,” Eater’s H. Claire Brown reported.

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The tableside chat felt just like old times for Rhoda Wurtele Eaves, 102, and Lucile Wheeler, 89, who’ve been fixtures in each other’s lives since they first met on Jan. 14, 1945, at a downhill race.

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table salt tablespoon

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