sandwich plate

1. 1.

   a serving consisting of a sandwich or sandwiches with garnishes

   Broaderdish

Questions about sandwich plate

What does sandwich plate mean?

sandwich plate means "a serving consisting of a sandwich or sandwiches with garnishes".

Is sandwich plate a common word?

sandwich 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.