card table

noun

1. a small, light table, usually with folding legs, used mainly for card games.

Word History and Origins

Origin of card table¹

First recorded in 1705–15

Example Sentences

Dinner took place on a litany of card tables set up on the jalousied porch off the kitchen.

From Washington Blade

Comrades set up card tables, loaded them with food, clothes and essentials, and brought them to a mosque's parking lot, unbothered by police.

From Washington Post

The book’s drama unfolds at the card table — the rivers, the flops, the risks and consequences — in a way that jolts adrenaline regardless of your familiarity with the game.

From Washington Post

However, trampolines can be stored vertically, meaning they take up no more room than a card table.

From Outside Online

We sit at a card table in the center of a windowless, white-walled prison meeting room.

From The Daily Beast

It turns out that Mr. Lockhart, the lone stranger at the card table, is actually the Devil himself.

From The Daily Beast

Like most poor men with dreams of making it big, Klondike begins at a card table.

From The Daily Beast

Hurriedly, they unfolded a square card table and covered it with a rather large amount of food.

From The Daily Beast

Taking away his bonus, in short, would be like denying an gambler a seat at the card table.

From The Daily Beast

The card table profitably occupies some six to eight hours daily of these old fellows' attention.

From Project Gutenberg

"You should come down to my place," said Mrs. Sin, setting the leather case on the little card-table beside the lamp.

From Project Gutenberg

The son of the dealer in old iron seated alone at a card-table opposite the first personage of the Empire!

From Project Gutenberg

Chairs were drawn to the card table, chips sold, and hands dealt.

From Project Gutenberg

The pen-tray on the little card-table where Mr Girtle sat and worked; and what was that?

From Project Gutenberg