butler's tray

noun

1. a rectangular tray, usually of mahogany or similar wood, with hinged sides that may be folded down to form a flat oval.

Example Sentences

A gold-metal cast of Cocteau’s hands lopped at the wrist subverts a fairly conventional tableau of paperbacks, colored pencils and a bronze lamp on a butler’s tray table.

From Wall Street Journal

The paint on the panelled walls was faded, blistered in places by the sun, or soiled where elbows had rubbed it or the butler's tray standing against it through long years, had marked it.

From Project Gutenberg

"Jane, ring the bell," she cried, and then in what seemed an incredibly short time, a man entered with a butler's tray, which he placed on a table in front of Madame du Launy, while the latter invited Julia to come nearer and take a cup of tea.

From Project Gutenberg

Can't you hear Falcon on the wrong side with a butler's tray full of glass, wondering why he was born?

From Project Gutenberg

One mahogany dining-table, two sideboards, one butler's tray, twelve chairs.

From Project Gutenberg