butler's tray

American  

noun

1. a rectangular tray, usually of mahogany or similar wood, with hinged sides that may be folded down to form a flat oval.

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Example Sentences

We had a punt last year, a sort of thing like a long butler's tray, and Charles got into fearful difficulties.

From A Comedy of Masks A Novel by Dowson, Ernest Christopher

On a side-table, or, rather, butler's tray, were bottles, decanters, and glasses.

From Ten Nights in a Bar Room by Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay)

The paint on the panelled walls was faded, blistered in places by the sun, or soiled where elbows had rubbed it or the butler's tray standing against it through long years, had marked it.

From Ovington's Bank by Weyman, Stanley J.

Can't you hear Falcon on the wrong side with a butler's tray full of glass, wondering why he was born?

From Jonah and Co. by Yates, Dornford

One mahogany dining-table, two sideboards, one butler's tray, twelve chairs.

From The Double Life Of Mr. Alfred Burton by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)