Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A table on which tea is set, or at which tea is drunk. Also used attributively: as, tea-table gossip.

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Examples

  • His gaze passed on from the Crouched Venus to a little tea-table with all its fragile and exquisite accessories, and to a shining copper kettle and copper chafing-dish.

    Chapter XVIII 2010

  • Carefully folding the road atlas at the correct page, I return to the tea-table.

    The Art of 'I Told You So' Jan Morris 2011

  • If there was no murdered man under the sofa in the first chapter, I dismissed the story as tea-table twaddle, which it often really was.

    Fiction 2009

  • So they met at the tea-table hi my study, and a great warmth stole over your father.

    The Kempton-Wace Letters 2010

  • If there was no murdered man under the sofa in the first chapter, I dismissed the story as tea-table twaddle, which it often really was.

    Humor 2009

  • If there was no murdered man under the sofa in the first chapter, I dismissed the story as tea-table twaddle, which it often really was.

    Anti-Catholicism 2009

  • If there was no murdered man under the sofa in the first chapter, I dismissed the story as tea-table twaddle, which it often really was.

    Scripture 2009

  • If there was no murdered man under the sofa in the first chapter, I dismissed the story as tea-table twaddle, which it often really was.

    Art and Literature 2009

  • If there was no murdered man under the sofa in the first chapter, I dismissed the story as tea-table twaddle, which it often really was.

    Pop Culture 2009

  • If there was no murdered man under the sofa in the first chapter, I dismissed the story as tea-table twaddle, which it often really was.

    Jesus Christ 2009

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