Definition of Council table

1. Noun. The table that conferees sit around as they hold a meeting.

Exact synonyms: Conference Table, Council Board
Group relationships: Conference Room
Generic synonyms: Table

Lexicographical Neighbors of Council Table

coumaroyl
coumaroyls
coumatetralyl
coumestrol
coumetarol
coun
council
council-housed
council board
council chamber
council estate
council estates
council house
council houses
council member
council table (current term)
council tax
councilist
councilists
councillor
councillors
councillorship
councillorships
councillour
councilman
councilmanic
councilmember
councilmen
councilor
councilors

Literary usage of Council table

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Memoirs of the Court of England During the Reign of the Stuarts,: Including by John Heneage Jesse (1855)
"Remarkable Tarty at the Council-table of ... were a remarkable party who assembled round the council-table of Charles I. Besides the ..."

2. Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, F.R.S.: Secretary to the by Samuel Pepys, Richard Griffin Braybrooke (1855)
"Chatham-yard, and is vexed that Lord Anglesey did, the other day, complain at the Council-table of disorders in the Navy, and not to him. ..."

3. Perley's Reminiscences of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis by Benjamin Perley Poore (1886)
"... MANNING, ENDICOTT, WHITNEY, AND LAMAR—POSTMASTER-GENERAL VILAS— ATTORNEY-GENERAL GARLAND—THE council table- THE inauguration of Grover Cleveland as the ..."

4. Diary, of Thomas Burton, Esq. Member in the Parliaments of Oliver and by Thomas Burton, Goddard, Guibon (1828)
"The council table bit like a serpent; the Star Chamber like scorpions. Two or three gentlemen could not stir out, for fear of being committed for a riot. ..."

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