Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An ornamental round table for use in playing at loo.

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Examples

  • Here, at the loo-table places were eagerly snapped up, Henry Ocock and his stepmother being among the first to secure seats: both were keen, hard players, who invariably re-lined their well-filled pockets.

    Australia Felix 2003

  • "I'll tell you what 'appened only last night," commenced Mrs. Postwhistle, seating herself the opposite side of the loo-table.

    Tommy and Co. 1893

  • A green table-cloth, matching the curtains, covers the loo-table.

    Paul Kelver, a Novel 1893

  • First there was a round loo-table, not quite so large in its circumference as some people might think desirable, but, nevertheless, a round loo-table.

    Orley Farm Anthony Trollope 1848

  • It was amply furnished with a mirror, a loo-table, and a very hard sofa.

    Henrietta Temple A Love Story Benjamin Disraeli 1842

  • Ferdinand was once more alone with the mirror, the loo-table, the hard sofa, the caricatures which he hated even worse than his host's portrait, the Hebrew Bible, and the Racing Calendar.

    Henrietta Temple A Love Story Benjamin Disraeli 1842

  • Ask Lord Falconer, if I don't sing like an angel, although my voice is hardly strong enough to go round a loo-table; but on the stage, one learns to dispense with all qualities.

    Godolphin, Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • Ask Lord Falconer, if I don't sing like an angel, although my voice is hardly strong enough to go round a loo-table; but on the stage, one learns to dispense with all qualities.

    Godolphin, Volume 5. Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • After a walk on deck, and a cup of tea or coffee, you form your party for whist or some round game, or join the ladies in their _boudoir_, which I ought to have mentioned before as leading out of the great room forward, being a pretty square apartment, fitted up with sofas, mirrors, loo-table, and other little elegancies which ladies love to look upon and be surrounded by.

    Impressions of America During the years 1833, 1834 and 1835. In Two Volumes, Volume I. Tyrone Power 1818

  • I was quite Confounded and amazed; it was impossible to explain myself across a loo-table, as she is so deaf: there was no making a reply to a woman and a Princess, and particularly for me, who have made it a rule, when I must converse with royalties, to treat them with the greatest respect, since it is all the court they will ever have from me.

    The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3 Horace Walpole 1757

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  • See loo.

    May 1, 2014