setout

A start or beginning; an outset.

An arrangement or display.

An array of food, as on a buffet table; a spread.

An entertaining event, such as a party.

Preparations, as for beginning a journey.

Company; set; clique.

A display, as of plate, or china, or elaborate dishes and wines at table; dress and accessories; equipage; turn-out.

In leather manufacturing, the act or process of smoothing out or setting a moistened hide with a slicker on a stone or table. See set, transitive verb, 33.

A display, as of plate, equipage, etc.; that which is displayed.