bridge table

American  

noun

1. a square card table with folding legs.

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Etymology

Origin of bridge table

First recorded in 1900–05

Example Sentences

“I was standing on a bridge table in the locker room,” Bernstein said, “and as people are frantically looking for him to do a live TV shot some sixth sense told me to look to my left. As I looked down, he was sitting in this locker with his dad.”

From Los Angeles Times

“Bridge Table,” the sleek show-stopper of aluminum and tungsten carbide that greets visitors in the main part of the exhibit, resembles a smooth, silver-colored tree, with four trunk-like legs that separate into branches and extend to support a gleaming, flat surface.

From Washington Times

Reluctant at first, he quickly completed a manuscript, writing on a collapsible bridge table under an apple tree.

From Los Angeles Times

Toward the end of the trip’s final day, which I’d mostly spent at the bridge table while hundreds of potentially interesting seabirds wheeled around outside, I went down to the lounge for a lecture on climate change.

From The New Yorker

As a kid in the 1970s, Betsy Lerner was repelled by the formality of Bakelite napkin rings and polite conversation at her mother’s bridge table.

From Washington Post