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Charger plates make a comeback.(The Orlando Sentinel)
Byline: Scott Joseph
To dress up a table, more restaurants _ and home entertainers, as well _ are getting back to using chargers. These chargers are not the San Diego variety, nor are they the type that allow the jerk at the next table to talk incessantly on his cell phone.
Chargers are large decorative plates that are part of the initial place setting on a formal dinner table. They're not new _ they've been around since the late 1800s _ but they all but vanished during the 1990s. Now they're back in vogue, but their proper use is a point of confusion.
Even the name is somewhat perplexing. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word's definition is a large flat plate and is derived from the old French chargeour, from the ...
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