Meaning of tea-table | Babel Free

Definitions

Noun. [B2]

Examples

“'I will leave you to yourselves, gentlemen,' said the provost, rising; 'when you have done with your crack, you will find me at my wife's tea-table.'”

““Ah!” said Mr. Powell, helping himself freely, “very wholesome. Rather a change of scene this for your inmate, Mr. Floyer,” he added, looking around at two chairs and a stool, which were pressed into the service of the tea-table, and which were indeed all that the room afforded.”

“[…] after we have removed some of the dust of our journey, we sit down to a well-spread tea-table, on which a noble Cornish pasty holds the post of honour.”

“There were beautifully arranged tea-tables under the deodars at Annandale, where the Grand Stand is now; […]”

“She dared not raise her eyes above the level of the tea-table, and she almost expected to see a spot of accusing vulpine blood drip down and stain the whiteness of the cloth.”

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