drawing table

noun

1. a table having a surface consisting of a drawing board adjustable to various heights and angles.

Word History and Origins

Origin of drawing table¹

First recorded in 1905–10

Example Sentences

The next step is for the Department of Interior to listen to the judge’s order and go back to the drawing table and give us another decision.

From Time

A piano, a music-rack, and a drawing-table completed the modest furnishings of the room.

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My battered desk was jam against my roommate's drawing table, and his chair backed against a bed.

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Between the sofa and the drawing-table is a big wicker chair, with broad arms and a low sloping back, with its back to the light.

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He would come home at one in the morning and sit down at his wide drawing table and work until dawn.

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Perched on his high stool at the drawing-table, his materials before him, he drew in freehand what his ideas suggested.

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