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night table
noun
- a small table, chest, etc., for use next to a bed.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of night table1
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Example Sentences
It’s the red blinking light atop the phone on his night table.
I laid down and, as usual, took a book from my night-table to read myself to sleep.
My first attempt was to work a hole through the wall, seven feet thick behind, and concealed by the night-table.
On the night-table, covered with a white cloth, three wax-tapers were burning.
So long as the medicines had littered the night-table she still had entertained hopes of a miraculous recovery.
On the night-table lay a tea-tray in disorder, and on the turned-down sheet some crumbs of toast.
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