blue plate

blue plate
noun
1. : a restaurant dinner plate divided into compartments for serving several kinds of food as a single order
2. : a main course (as of meat and vegetable) served as a single menu item

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1. a plate, often decorated with a blue willow pattern, divided by ridges into sections for holding apart several kinds of food.
2. Also called blue plate special. a specially priced main course, as of meat and vegetables, listed as an item on a menu, esp. in an inexpensive restaurant.
[1940-45]

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blue plate,
U.S.
1. a plate divided by ridges into compartments, to hold a whole main course, such as meat, vegetables, and other food.
2. the food so served, especially as an item on a menu.

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(also blue-plate) adj. [attrib.] (of a restaurant meal) consisting of a full main course ordered as a single menu item

the blue plate special

Origin:
mid 20th cent.: with reference to the original blue plates divided into compartments, on which fixed-price restaurant meals were served

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