Ta·ble d'hôte pl. Tables d'hôte
 1. A common table for guests at a hotel; an ordinary.
 2. Now, commonly, a meal, usually of several preselected and fixed courses, in a restaurant, hotel, or the like, for which one pays a fixed price.  Sometimes, a meal with optional courses for which one pays a fixed price irrespective of what one orders; but the latter is usuallyt referred to as a pris fixe meal or a a la carte meal. Often used adjectively; as, a table-d'hôte meal.

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 table d'hote
      adj : (of a restaurant meal) complete but with limited choices and
            at a fixed price [syn: prix fixe] [ant: a la carte]
      n : a menu offering a complete meal with limited choices at a
          fixed price