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tavern table

American  

noun

  1. a short table having a narrow, deep apron and legs connected by a box stretcher.


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His canvases show mainly sunny people, as if reflected in the elbow-polished wood of a tavern table.

From Time Magazine Archive

A big clump of southern pine filled an old copper basin on a low tavern table.

From The Fifth Wheel A Novel by Prouty, Olive Higgins

Yet, when he placed his squat figure behind a tavern table, and looked at me quietly with his mouth shut, he was both handsome and distinguished in appearance.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 118, August, 1867 by Various

What?—wouldst thou become a jest and byword for every tavern table between the Temple and the Tower?

From Judith Shakespeare Her love affairs and other adventures by Black, William

The talk at the tavern table that evening ran on merrily among the young people.

From The Price of the Prairie A Story of Kansas by McCarter, Margaret Hill

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