dumbwaiter
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (GA, Canada) IPA: /ˈdʌmˌweɪtəɹ/
dumbwaiter (plural dumbwaiters)
- A small elevator used to move food etc. from one floor of a building to another.
- (obsolete) A table or set of trays on rollers used for serving food.
- 1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter VII, in Great Expectations [...] In Three Volumes, volume II, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, OCLC 3359935 ↗, page 110 ↗:
- Sauces, wines, all the accessories we wanted, and all of the best, were given out by our host from his dumbwaiter; and when they had made the circuit of the table, he always put them back again.
- (obsolete) A lazy Susan.
- French: monte-plat, monte-plats
- German: Speisenaufzug, Speiseaufzug
- Italian: montavivande
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