billiard table

noun

1. an oblong table with a slate surface covered by a cloth and enclosed by a raised rim of vulcanized rubber, for use in playing billiards.

Word History and Origins

Origin of billiard table¹

First recorded in 1635–45

Example Sentences

The improvement has come at last, and these streets are now almost of a billiard-table smoothness.

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First you came into a vestibule where hats, coats, and sticks were left, then into a large salon with a billiard-table.

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Later, however, the sisters learned to play the game, and at the billiard table they passed many an hour.

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Every second house in the place was a saloon, and every saloon seemed to have a billiard-table and a banjo player.

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The men brought down a billiard-table, sir, and have been putting it up in the west room.

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