table centre
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.70 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A three-dimensional decoration (such as a flower arrangement or candelabrum) for the centre of a dining table.
Example Sentences
- "If a table-centre be used, it should to my fancy be washable […]. Very beautiful ones may be manufactured by outlining white damask with coloured silk, as suggested for sideboard cloths […]"
- "No silken table-centre is needed when the flowers are so decorative in themselves, but a transparent cloth is often used, laid over a foundation of coloured silk."
- "[…] she also […] did exquisite fancy needlework. Arthur once showed me a table-centre she had given him for Christmas which was quite a work of art."
- "While these vases were being made, some other table-decorations had begun to take a new and more representational form. In 1743 was made for Brühl a great table-centre in the form of a grotto with figures about it […]"
- "The epergne was probably the best-known Victorian table centre. Built like a multi-storey vase, an epergne housed huge, tiered arrangements."