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View synonyms for tea table

tea table

noun

  1. a small table for holding a tea service and cups, plates, etc., for several people.


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Other Words From

  • tea-table adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of tea table1

First recorded in 1680–90

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Example Sentences

Not far from it was placed a tea-table, close to a big sofa which stood out at right angles from the wall.

Black Sheep was sent to the drawing-room and charged into a solid tea-table laden with china.

At a table in the little parlour sat the clerk's wife, presiding at a solitary tea-table by the light of a candle.

Another thing that influenced impressible Tessa this day, was a talk at the tea-table.

They were sitting around the tea-table cozily, the four people who, in her mothers thought, constituted all Tessas world.

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