side table

See also: side-table and sidetable

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Noun

side table (plural side tables)

  1. A small table intended to be placed beside a larger piece of furniture, such as a bed or sofa.
    • 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, chapter 2, in Ada, or, Ardor: A Family Chronicle, Harmondsworth, London: Penguin Books, published 1970, →ISBN, part 1, page 15:
      Upon the infinitely wise countrywoman’s suggestion, she goose-penned, from the edge of her bed, on a side table with cabriole legs, a love letter and took five minutes to reread it in a languorous but loud voice […]
    • 2008 May 4, Armand Limnander, “Chow, Darling”, in The New York Times‎[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 6 January 2018:
      For his own soiree, Kane went for somewhat more conventional decorations: on a side table, Apothia candles glimmered like fireflies, guarding a taxidermied owl, while masses of delphiniums, hydrangeas, lilacs and old Dutch roses perfumed the air.
    • 2013, Janie Summers, A Fallen Star, page 18:
      Lachlan rose to fetch a coffee pot from the side table and idly Holly wondered how those legs coped with the unroominess of canoes.

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