table lighter

English

Noun

table lighter (plural table lighters)

1. A lighter for cigarettes, etc., often ornately decorated, designed to be kept or placed on a table.
   • 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 292:

     Smoke rose high - cigarette and golden table-lighters brought round by undeferential white-coated flunkeys - but there was nothing to drink except orange crush - officially.