tea table
noun
: a table used or spread for tea
specifically
: a small table for serving afternoon tea
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In the end, Waggener’s good taste will set the Maybach tea table.
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Mark Ewing, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2024
Featuring a marble stone top, this round table is the perfect pick for a coffee or tea table in your living room.
—Mia Meltzer, Rolling Stone, 21 June 2024
On Thursday, Xi and Kissinger were seated on the same level across a small tea table in a much more cordial setting.
—Nectar Gan, CNN, 20 July 2023
For me, cane furniture conjures up visions of elegant terraces with tea tables and 1920s reclining sun loungers.
—Jermaine Gallacher, Vogue, 21 June 2023
According to a history of these tables published in Traditional Home magazine in March 2008, that decorative flourish started in the early 1700s in England as the edging on a silver salver — a tray on which tea could be brought out and set down on a tea table.
—Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2021
Few outings feel more decadent than an afternoon around a tea table.
—Rachel Silva, ELLE Decor, 11 Jan. 2023
In the Matisse to the left, two women enjoy the leafy garden in the dappled light of a sunny day, seated at a tea table set up beneath the trees.
—Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2021
Carlo Bugatti inlaid mahogany tea table and its companion tea and coffee service, made of gilt silver festooned with ivory tusks.
—Steven Litt, cleveland, 25 Dec. 2020
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Mark Ewing, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2024
Featuring a marble stone top, this round table is the perfect pick for a coffee or tea table in your living room.
—Mia Meltzer, Rolling Stone, 21 June 2024
On Thursday, Xi and Kissinger were seated on the same level across a small tea table in a much more cordial setting.
—Nectar Gan, CNN, 20 July 2023
For me, cane furniture conjures up visions of elegant terraces with tea tables and 1920s reclining sun loungers.
—Jermaine Gallacher, Vogue, 21 June 2023
According to a history of these tables published in Traditional Home magazine in March 2008, that decorative flourish started in the early 1700s in England as the edging on a silver salver — a tray on which tea could be brought out and set down on a tea table.
—Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2021
Few outings feel more decadent than an afternoon around a tea table.
—Rachel Silva, ELLE Decor, 11 Jan. 2023
In the Matisse to the left, two women enjoy the leafy garden in the dappled light of a sunny day, seated at a tea table set up beneath the trees.
—Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2021
Carlo Bugatti inlaid mahogany tea table and its companion tea and coffee service, made of gilt silver festooned with ivory tusks.
—Steven Litt, cleveland, 25 Dec. 2020
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“Tea table.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tea%20table. Accessed 23 Dec. 2024.
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