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Ordinary (An)

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A public dinner where each guest pays his quota; a table dʹhôte.

“ʹTis almost dinner; I know they stay for you at the ordinary.”—Beaumont and Fletcher: Scornful Lady, iv. 1.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Ordeal (Saxon, great judgment)
Ordeal
Order!
Order of the Cockle
Order of the Day (The,)
Orders
Orders of Architecture
Ordigale
Ordinary (An)
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Oread (plural, Orĕads [3 syl.] or Oreădes [4 syl.])
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Orfeo and Heurodis
Orgies
Orgoglio (pron. Or-gole-yo)
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Oriana
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