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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 Olive Higgins Prouty

We were again elbowed at a tavern table, and compelled to struggle with real and not ideal pioneers for fried beefsteak and soggy doughboys.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862 by Various

There was a pine tavern table, 17th century in feeling but made nearly two hundred years later.

From If You're Going to Live in the Country by Frank Lieberman

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

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