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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

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 Margaret Hill McCarter

Others of the clan Gregor had come out, allured by tidings of his prosperity; and so the broad Doric of lowland Scotch resounded about the tavern table almost as much as the Canadian twang.

From Cedar Creek From the Shanty to the Settlement by Elizabeth Hely Walshe

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 William Black

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

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