tea table

noun

1. a small table for holding a tea service and cups, plates, etc., for several people.

Other Words From

• tea-table adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of tea table¹

First recorded in 1680–90

Example Sentences

Not far from it was placed a tea-table, close to a big sofa which stood out at right angles from the wall.

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Black Sheep was sent to the drawing-room and charged into a solid tea-table laden with china.

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At a table in the little parlour sat the clerk's wife, presiding at a solitary tea-table by the light of a candle.

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Another thing that influenced impressible Tessa this day, was a talk at the tea-table.

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They were sitting around the tea-table cozily, the four people who, in her mothers thought, constituted all Tessas world.

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