coffee table
nounEtymology From coffee + table.
1
Furniture, Lifestyle A long, low table, often placed in front of a sofa or seating area in a living room.
- We were just settling ourselves around the coffee-table, when several friends from the parsonage arrived.1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 26:
2
Furniture, Lifestyle A table from which coffee is served.
- Derived terms
- coffee table book