bridge table

noun

1. a square card table with folding legs.

Word History and Origins

Origin of bridge table¹

First recorded in 1900–05

Example Sentences

“I was standing on a bridge table in the locker room,” Bernstein said, “and as people are frantically looking for him to do a live TV shot some sixth sense told me to look to my left. As I looked down, he was sitting in this locker with his dad.”

From Los Angeles Times

“Bridge Table,” the sleek show-stopper of aluminum and tungsten carbide that greets visitors in the main part of the exhibit, resembles a smooth, silver-colored tree, with four trunk-like legs that separate into branches and extend to support a gleaming, flat surface.

From Washington Times

Reluctant at first, he quickly completed a manuscript, writing on a collapsible bridge table under an apple tree.

From Los Angeles Times

He set it down quickly on the bridge table.

From Literature

The chaplain glanced at the bridge table that served as his desk and saw only the abominable orange-red pear-shaped plum tomato he had obtained that same morning from Colonel Cathcart, still lying on its side where he had forgotten it like an indestructible and incarnadine symbol of his own ineptitude.

From Literature