end table

American  

noun

1. a small table placed beside a chair or at the end of a sofa.

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Etymology

Origin of end table

An Americanism dating back to 1850–55

Example Sentences

On an end table next to her settee, a telephone.

From Literature

And in the end table’s drawer, a fabric-bound book, inches thick.

From Literature

My father’s mustache quivers as he bangs his hand on the end table.

From Literature

In what I recognize as a guest parlor, Joseph gestures to a visitors’ book lying open on an end table.

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I scrawl something unintelligible in the book and then set my plate awkwardly on the end table next to the sofa, ready to leave less than five minutes after I arrived.

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