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Eating, but with rules, candles, and someone judging which fork you grabbed.
means The act of having a meal, especially a formal or social one, with attention to manner and setting.
from From Old French disner, to eat, which traced back to Latin disjejunare — literally to break one's fast, the same root that gave us dinner.
Original meaningDisner once meant the day's first meal.
Fine diningPhrase popularized as restaurants chased prestige postwar.
Dining carTrains made eating-in-motion a Victorian luxury.