Word: diner
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...dinner-tables here in Cambridge are not mirrors of etiquette, - perhaps it's a pity they are not. We do not eat our meals with that "repose of manner" which characterizes a diner-out and benefits one's digestion, nor is our after-dinner conversation of that prudish kind which is heard in some circles of society. Still there are some suggestions, even in a book on the ceremonies of polite life, that are worth following, and one of these is the banishment of "shop" from table conversation...