card table

noun

: a table designed for playing cards
especially : a square table with folding legs

Examples of card table in a Sentence

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Card faces are visible for exponentially longer when pitched from a dealer’s hand situated a foot or so above the card table. Ben Dowsett, WIRED, 10 Dec. 2024 Now, the city is chasing higher-end customers with sports and entertainment options beyond casino card tables, associate producer Maya Huter reports. Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 10 Oct. 2024 Along the way, neighbors had set up a card table and handed out water, sports drinks, granola bars, applesauce packs, cheese and peanut butter crackers, gummies and cold cubed watermelon. Nouran Salahieh, Michelle Krupa and Nicole Chavez, CNN, 5 Sep. 2024 The back corners were consumed with groups gathered around card tables, inventing their own stories together. Ally Beardsley, Washington Post, 31 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for card table 

Word History

First Known Use

1709, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of card table was in 1709

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“Card table.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/card%20table. Accessed 23 Dec. 2024.

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card table

noun
: a table designed for playing cards
especially : a square table with folding legs

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