roundtable

roundtable
roundtable (n.) in reference to a gathering of persons in which all are accorded equal status, 1826 (there being no head of a round table.) King Arthur's Round Table is attested from c.1300, from O.Fr. table ronde (1155, in Wace's Roman de Brut).

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