occasional table

noun

1. a small table with no regular use

Example Sentences

She was sitting in a chair by the open window with quite a pile of yellow-labelled books on the occasional table beside her.

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Chair (occasional Jacobean with rose-coloured squab) L. of occasional table above settee.

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"Look at the time," said he, drawing attention to the gilt clock on an occasional table.

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Picking up a photograph of Alice as a small child from an occasional table.

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On a writing-table lay a volume of Shakespeare, and, on an occasional table, a carved ivory back-scratcher.

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