tea-table

See also: tea table and teatable

English

Noun

tea-table (plural tea-tables)

1. Alternative form of tea table.
   • 1824, Walter Scott, chapter 12, in Redgauntlet‎^[1]:

     'I will leave you to yourselves, gentlemen,' said the provost, rising; 'when you have done with your crack, you will find me at my wife's tea-table.'

   • 1842, [Katherine] Thomson, chapter IX, in Widows and Widowers. A Romance of Real Life., volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 165:

     “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.

   • 1854, Chambers's Journal of popular literature, science and arts, W. & R. Chambers:

     […] after we have removed some of the dust of our journey, we sit down to a well-spread tea-table, on which a noble Cornish pasty holds the post of honour.

   • 1888, Rudyard Kipling, “Cupid’s Arrows”, in Plain Tales from the Hills, Calcutta: Thacker, Spink and Co.; London: W. Thacker & Co., →OCLC, page 56:

     There were beautifully arranged tea-tables under the deodars at Annandale, where the Grand Stand is now; […]

   • 1910, Saki [pseudonym; Hector Hugh Munro], “The Bag”, in Reginald in Russia and Other Sketches, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC, page 80:

     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.