table d'hôte

Unadapted borrowing from French table d'hôte (“table of the host”).

• IPA^(key): /ˌtɑːblə ˈdəʊt/, /ˌtɑːbəl -/

table d'hôte (plural tables d'hôte)

1. A menu offering a complete meal, with little choice, at a fixed price.
   • 1962 February, “Talking of Trains: Dearer meals in B.R. trains”, in Modern Railways, page 78:

     The increases from December 4 in the prices of table d'hôte meals in British Railways restaurant cars were expected, in view both of a general upward trend in meal prices in the catering trade and of the fiat that train meals must pay for themselves.

   • 2000, “Making the Most of the Route des Plaines”, in Réunion, Mauritius, Seychelles (NEOS Guide), Watford, Hertfordshire; Greenville, S.C.: Michelin Travel Publications, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 158, column 2:

     It’s also possible to reserve a table d’hôte if you’re not actually staying there.

table d'hôte (not comparable)

1. Of menu selections, offered at a fixed price.

• prix fixe
• set menu

• à la carte

• “table d’hôte”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

• bottlehead

• IPA^(key): /ta.blə d‿ot/

table d'hôte f (plural tables d'hôte)

1. table d'hôte (a menu offering a complete meal, with little choice, at a fixed price)

Unadapted borrowing from French table d'hôte (“table of the host”).

table d'hôte

1. table d'hôte (a menu offering a complete meal, with little choice, at a fixed price)

• “table d'hôte”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016