meals

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meals - Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary :

  Meals
  are at the present day "eaten from a round table little higher
  than a stool, guests sitting cross-legged on mats or small
  carpets in a circle, and dipping their fingers into one large
  dish heaped with a mixture of boiled rice and other grain and
  meat. But in the time of our Lord, and perhaps even from the
  days of Amos (6:4, 7), the foreign custom had been largely
  introduced of having broad couches, forming three sides of a
  small square, the guests reclining at ease on their elbows
  during meals, with their faces to the space within, up and down
  which servants passed offering various dishes, or in the absence
  of servants, helping themselves from dishes laid on a table set
  between the couches." Geikie's Life of Christ. (Comp. Luke
  7:36-50.) (See ABRAHAM'S BOSOM; BANQUET; FEAST.)