"teatable" meaning in English

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Noun

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

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1976 [1946], Anya Seton, The Turquoise, London: Hodder and Stoughton, page 262",
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          "ref": "1984 winter, Petra Ten-Doesschate Chu, “The Chinese as Teachers of the Dutch: Chinese Influences on Dutch Art and Culture in the 17th and 18th Centuries”, in Asian Culture Quarterly, volume XII, number 4, page 7",
          "text": "Aside from the oval, mostly lacquered teatable, there were the Chinese or Chinese-inspired teacups – which in Holland were always placed on saucers – the teapots and water kettles, the teacaddies, the sugar bowls, and the boxes for silver spoons used to stir the sugar in the tea.",
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          "ref": "1994, Wayne Craven, American Art: History and Culture, Madison, Wis.: Brown & Benchmark, page 88",
          "text": "Lavish carving became a major component in Philadelphia furniture and interiors, as seen in the parlor of the Powel House (Fig. 6.14)—on Chippendale chairs, sofa, piecrust teatables, the grandfather clock, the pictureframe, fireplace ornamentation, and architectural decorations.",
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          "ref": "2008, Pamela Hill, The Enamel Eye, Penzance, Cornwall: United Writers Publications Ltd, page 24",
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          "ref": "2014 [1969], Celia Fremlin, chapter V, in Possession, Faber and Faber, page 37",
          "text": "I noticed an unfamiliar car parked outside our gate as I came in, but thought nothing of it—people park their cars all anyhow in our road, especially at weekends, when the kettles are on and the teatables are spread, and the grandmothers and the babies and the in-laws are on the move, like nomadic tribes, back and forth across the suburbs.",
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