occasional table
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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
She was sitting in a chair by the open window with quite a pile of yellow-labelled books on the occasional table beside her.
From Tono Bungay by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
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