"table-decker" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "table-deckers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "table-decker (plural table-deckers)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1787, The New Lady's Magazine",
          "text": "At this time the table-decker came up. He took a napkin out of his budget, wiped the Cup, and was going to give the king some water to drink.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1804, The works of the poets of Great Britain and Ireland",
          "text": "In 1749, he complimented Mr. Garrick in an Ode on his marriage with Madam Violetti ; and about the same period he united himself in the same state with Miss Hamilton, daughter of Mr. Hamilton, table-decker to the princesses.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1965, Country Life - Volume 137, page 1413",
          "text": "George III from 1761 included a table-decker in his personal household ; another was allocated to the ten maids-of-honour and bedchamber women, and a third to his numerous chaplains.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A servant in an aristocratic household who specifies where various dishes and decorations are to be placed at table."
      ],
      "id": "en-table-decker-en-noun-vphUbjDz",
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          "aristocratic",
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        ],
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          "household",
          "household"
        ],
        [
          "dish",
          "dish"
        ],
        [
          "decoration",
          "decoration"
        ],
        [
          "table",
          "table"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(historical) A servant in an aristocratic household who specifies where various dishes and decorations are to be placed at table."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "table-decker"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "table-deckers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1787, The New Lady's Magazine",
          "text": "At this time the table-decker came up. He took a napkin out of his budget, wiped the Cup, and was going to give the king some water to drink.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1804, The works of the poets of Great Britain and Ireland",
          "text": "In 1749, he complimented Mr. Garrick in an Ode on his marriage with Madam Violetti ; and about the same period he united himself in the same state with Miss Hamilton, daughter of Mr. Hamilton, table-decker to the princesses.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1965, Country Life - Volume 137, page 1413",
          "text": "George III from 1761 included a table-decker in his personal household ; another was allocated to the ten maids-of-honour and bedchamber women, and a third to his numerous chaplains.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A servant in an aristocratic household who specifies where various dishes and decorations are to be placed at table."
      ],
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        ],
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        ],
        [
          "dish",
          "dish"
        ],
        [
          "decoration",
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        ],
        [
          "table",
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        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(historical) A servant in an aristocratic household who specifies where various dishes and decorations are to be placed at table."
      ],
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        "historical"
      ]
    }
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  "word": "table-decker"
}