Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A table on which tea is set, or at which tea is drunk. Also used attributively: as, tea-table gossip.
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Examples
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His gaze passed on from the Crouched Venus to a little tea-table with all its fragile and exquisite accessories, and to a shining copper kettle and copper chafing-dish.
Chapter XVIII 2010
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Carefully folding the road atlas at the correct page, I return to the tea-table.
The Art of 'I Told You So' Jan Morris 2011
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If there was no murdered man under the sofa in the first chapter, I dismissed the story as tea-table twaddle, which it often really was.
Fiction 2009
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So they met at the tea-table hi my study, and a great warmth stole over your father.
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If there was no murdered man under the sofa in the first chapter, I dismissed the story as tea-table twaddle, which it often really was.
Humor 2009
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If there was no murdered man under the sofa in the first chapter, I dismissed the story as tea-table twaddle, which it often really was.
Anti-Catholicism 2009
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If there was no murdered man under the sofa in the first chapter, I dismissed the story as tea-table twaddle, which it often really was.
Scripture 2009
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If there was no murdered man under the sofa in the first chapter, I dismissed the story as tea-table twaddle, which it often really was.
Art and Literature 2009
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If there was no murdered man under the sofa in the first chapter, I dismissed the story as tea-table twaddle, which it often really was.
Pop Culture 2009
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If there was no murdered man under the sofa in the first chapter, I dismissed the story as tea-table twaddle, which it often really was.
Jesus Christ 2009
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