"tea-table" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: tea-tables [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} tea-table (plural tea-tables)
  1. Alternative form of tea table. Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: tea table
    Sense id: en-tea-table-en-noun-w577C78W Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1824, Walter Scott, chapter 12, in Redgauntlet:",
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          "ref": "1842, [Katherine] Thomson, chapter IX, in Widows and Widowers. A Romance of Real Life., volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 165:",
          "text": "“Ah!” said Mr. Powell, helping himself freely, “very wholesome. Rather a change of scene this for your inmate, Mr. Floyer,” he added, looking around at two chairs and a stool, which were pressed into the service of the tea-table, and which were indeed all that the room afforded.",
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          "ref": "1854, Chambers's Journal of popular literature, science and arts, W. & R. Chambers:",
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          "ref": "1888, Rudyard Kipling, “Cupid’s Arrows”, in Plain Tales from the Hills, Calcutta: Thacker, Spink and Co.; London: W. Thacker & Co., →OCLC, page 56:",
          "text": "There were beautifully arranged tea-tables under the deodars at Annandale, where the Grand Stand is now; […]",
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          "ref": "1910, Saki [pseudonym; Hector Hugh Munro], “The Bag”, in Reginald in Russia and Other Sketches, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC, page 80:",
          "text": "She dared not raise her eyes above the level of the tea-table, and she almost expected to see a spot of accusing vulpine blood drip down and stain the whiteness of the cloth.",
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