breakfast tray

English

Noun

breakfast tray (plural breakfast trays)

1. A small, lightweight tray with a low rail around the edge used to carry a breakfast meal, sometimes utilised as a serving tray for someone in bed.
   • 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:

     At the moment of our inopportune, but invisible, visit he was sitting up, propped by the pillows, with a breakfast-tray upon his knees.