References
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Ordinary
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Daily entries from the 17th century London diary
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Chart showing the number of references in each month of the diary’s entries.
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Paul Brewster • Link
From the OED:
An eating-house or tavern where public meals are provided at a fixed price; a dining room in such a building.
In the 17th century, the more expensive ordinaries were frequented by men of fashion, and the dinner was usually followed by gambling; hence the term was often used as synonymous with
Stuart Mitchell • Link
An Ordinary was also a meal, usually a lunchtime meal, that was available in pubs. This is the sense that it has when Pepys says, "I went to an Ordinary at the King
Bill • Link
An Ordinary, an eating or victualing house, where persons may eat at so much per meal.
---Dictionarium Britannicum Or a More Compleat Universal Etymological English. N. Bailey, 1736