tea table
noun
a small table for holding a tea service and cups, plates, etc., for several people.
Origin of tea table
1First recorded in 1680–90
Other words from tea table
- tea-table, adjective
Words Nearby tea table
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How to use tea table in a sentence
Not far from it was placed a tea-table, close to a big sofa which stood out at right angles from the wall.
Bella Donna | Robert HichensBlack Sheep was sent to the drawing-room and charged into a solid tea-table laden with china.
Kipling Stories and Poems Every Child Should Know, Book II | Rudyard KiplingAt a table in the little parlour sat the clerk's wife, presiding at a solitary tea-table by the light of a candle.
Elster's Folly | Mrs. Henry WoodAnother thing that influenced impressible Tessa this day, was a talk at the tea-table.
Tessa Wadsworth's Discipline | Jennie M. DrinkwaterThey were sitting around the tea-table cozily, the four people who, in her mothers thought, constituted all Tessas world.
Tessa Wadsworth's Discipline | Jennie M. Drinkwater
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