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Definition of Coffee table
1. Noun. Low table where magazines can be placed and coffee or cocktails are served.
Definition of Coffee table
1. Noun. A long, low table, often placed before seating in a living room, on which drinks may be served, and magazines etc placed. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Coffee Table
Literary usage of Coffee table
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. All about Coffee by William Harrison Ukers (1922)
"... 1833; and his "Manager Classen and His Family at the Afternoon coffee table",
... at the coffee table"; John Philipp's "Old Woman with Coffee Cup"; ..."
2. The Universal Songster: Or, Museum of Mirth: Forming the Most Complete (1834)
"Ulloa '. there's that sweep resting his soot-bag on the coffee-table. ... Och !
blood an nouns now! if they hav'n't upset the coffee-table. ..."
3. The Memoirs of the Baroness Cecile de Courtot, Lady-in-waiting to the by Moritz von Kaisenberg, Cécile de Courtot, Jessie Haynes (1900)
"How often have I not heard descriptions of that coffee-table from my mother and
my grandmother, who both remembered it well! In the middle of the big garden ..."
4. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1905)
"Each member of a club provides a light lunch, known as a coffee-table, in his
rooms on a set day and his fellow clubmen are free to use it if they feel so ..."
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