underplate
6.2
A plate placed under another plate or bowl to protect the table and make it look nicer
- noun
- /ˈʌndərˌpleɪt/
:
plato base
- She stops in the middle of dinner to take three plates back to the kitchen because she forgot the underplates.
Examples
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What's an underplate, you may ask?
Fiction book (2002) -
The waiter placed the soup bowl on an elegant underplate to keep the table clean.
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She chose a colorful underplate to complement her dinnerware during the fancy meal.
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At the banquet, each dessert plate was served on a decorative underplate for an artistic touch.
Synonyms
subplate
vsunderplate
7.0
A lower layer under a main part that supports it
is a dish placed under another mainly for support or decoration
How Big
Surface Forms
underplate singular
underplates plural
Morphology
Etymology
Underplate is made of two simple English parts: under- meaning 'below' and plate meaning 'dish', so it is literally a plate placed under another to support it or to make the table look nicer.