library table

noun

1. a large pedestal writing table or desk.

Word History and Origins

Origin of library table¹

First recorded in 1735–45

Example Sentences

Instinctively, she settled herself at the same library table she had preferred in years gone by.

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I frequented galleries, museum shows and antique malls searching out and sometimes buying objects of these periods — an oak library table here, a planter stand or lighting fixture there.

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There’s bacon on the stove and a cake on the icebox; last night’s mahjong tiles, handmade by Carrie, still litter the library table.

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Indeed, the book seems an entirely improper one to be placed in the hands of the young or to have a place on the family library table.

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She taps her thumb to her fingers under the library table where Ashley Naches can’t see.

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