occasional table
Britishnoun
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I feel like I’m being given an occasional table scrap.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 12, 2023
And for the firm’s take on an occasional table by James Mont, Kindel artisans replicated the original’s unusual copper-and-silver camouflage-like finish.
From Architectural Digest ● Aug. 19, 2014
Ms. Lobell said at some hotels, she was reduced to sitting on an easy chair and hunching over an occasional table because the desk and chair were so inadequate.
From New York Times ● Dec. 6, 2010
Perry looks at me across the highly polished occasional table, a taxi's horn just penetrating the triple glazing.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 3, 2010
Yet Raleigh junior had an occasional table beside him, from which the letters, telegrams, newspapers, and scraps of paper had overflowed on to the floor.
From Amaryllis at the Fair by Richard Jefferies
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