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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, a table the top of which could be lengthened by pulling out slides or leaves. It was the prototype of modern extension table.
  2. n. A table or stand especially designed for use in drawing.

Examples

  • “He pulled his own drawing-table to the window, set out his board and colour-box, filled a great glass from the seltzer-water bottle, drank some of the vapid liquor, and plunged his brushes in the rest, with which he began to paint.”

    The Newcomes

  • “Laura was standing by the well-remembered drawing-table which I had so often used, with the little album that I had filled for her in past times open under her hand.”

    The Woman in White

  • “Give him his drawing-table, his plans, his models, the noise of machinery, the clatter of the foundry, and he is always contented.”

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 57, July, 1862

  • “Of course, it is illustrated with photographs, the first one depicting a sleek and stiff Yeomanic-looking, khaki-clad being standing by the side of a swagger little drawing-table covered with a fringed tablecloth, and obviously groaning under what we learn are the gentleman's daily rations.”

    A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition

  • “He tried walking round the room on one leg, working heel and toe, and that succeeded very well, and did no harm till he unluckily came to the drawing-table, when he immediately brought himself to a stand on both feet.”

    The Doll and Her Friends or Memoirs of the Lady Seraphina

  • “Between the sofa and the drawing-table is a big wicker chair, with broad arms and a low sloping back, with its back to the light.”

    Heartbreak House

  • “[She passes on to the drawing-table, and leans against the end of it, facing the windows].”

    Heartbreak House

  • “[She sits down at the drawing-table and pours out tea for herself].”

    Heartbreak House

  • “Mazzini, terribly upset, with a duelling pistol in his hand, comes from the hall, and makes his way to the drawing-table.”

    Heartbreak House

  • “The dusty and neglected drawing on his crude drawing-table told the story all too well.”

    The Making of Bobby Burnit Being a Record of the Adventures of a Live American Young Man

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