loo table
noun1
A round table originally designed for playing the card game lanterloo.
- There was also a loo-table, in an adjoining room, or rather closet, round which the company had just sufficient space to sit, with their chairs close to the wainscot.1790, Helen Maria Williams, chapter 22, in Julia, volume 2, page 33:
- […] in the evening Elizabeth joined their party in the drawing-room. The loo table, however, did not appear.1813, Jane Austen, chapter 10, in Pride and Prejudice, volume 1, page 102:
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- It was singular to see […] with what a practised hand he put together one article after another. First there was a round loo-table, not quite so large in its circumference as some people might think desirable, but, nevertheless, a round loo-table. The pedestal with its three claws was all together.1862, Anthony Trollope, chapter 6, in Orley Farm, volume 1, pages 46-47: