Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun 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 the modern extension table.
- noun A table or stand especially designed for use in drawing.
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Examples
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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 2006
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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 2003
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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 P. T. Ross
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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 Unknown
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Give him his drawing-table, his plans, his models, the noise of machinery, the clatter of the foundry, and he is always contented.
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[She sits down at the drawing-table and pours out tea for herself].
Heartbreak House George Bernard Shaw 1903
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Mazzini, terribly upset, with a duelling pistol in his hand, comes from the hall, and makes his way to the drawing-table.
Heartbreak House George Bernard Shaw 1903
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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 George Bernard Shaw 1903
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[She passes on to the drawing-table, and leans against the end of it, facing the windows].
Heartbreak House George Bernard Shaw 1903
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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 George Randolph Chester 1896
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