Meaning & use
tablescape
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Meaning
nouncountable
A carefully styled arrangement of dishes, flowers, candles and decorations on a table, designed to look attractive for an occasion.
Grammar: Countable: a festive tablescape, two tablescapes.
Patterns
- a tablescape for something
- a tablescape of something
She spent the morning creating a spring tablescape with tulips and linen napkins.
The magazine showed a rustic tablescape made from pumpkins and candles.
Their wedding tablescape used gold plates and small glass vases.
Word forms
| plural | tablescapes |
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Common combinations
- festive tablescape
- A festive tablescape of red berries and pine made the room cozy.
- create a tablescape
- We love to create a tablescape for every holiday dinner.
- holiday tablescape
- Her holiday tablescape was the talk of the party.
- simple tablescape
- A simple tablescape with one candle can still look elegant.
- tablescape ideas
- I scrolled through tablescape ideas before planning the dinner.
Synonyms and how they differ
- table setting
- Table setting only refers to the plates and cutlery laid out, whereas a tablescape includes decorative styling as well.
- centerpiece
- A centerpiece is a single decoration in the middle, while a tablescape covers the whole look of the table.
- table decor
- Table decor is a broad everyday phrase, whereas tablescape names the finished, designed arrangement as one scene.
Word family
Commonly confused: tablescape or table setting?
tablescape vs table setting
A table setting is the practical arrangement of plates and cutlery for each person. A tablescape is the overall styled look, with flowers, candles and other decoration.
Practice
For the party she designed a ___ with candles, flowers and matching plates.
Choose one answer.
A tablescape is a styled table arrangement. The other -scape words describe views of land, sea or city, so they do not fit a decorated table.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “tablescape”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.