dessert plate

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   a small plate on which dessert can be served

   Broaderplate

Questions about dessert plate

What does dessert plate mean?

dessert plate means "a small plate on which dessert can be served".

Is dessert plate a common word?

dessert plate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.