occasional table
nounEtymology From occasional (“for an occasion”) + table.
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Furniture, Lifestyle Any small table, such as an end table, which has no particular function and may typically be folded away.
- A cushion-covered divan; three-piece lounge-suite; occasional table, writing table and radio constituted the principal pieces[.]1936, F.J. Thwaites, chapter XI, in The Redemption, Sydney: H. John Edwards, published 1940, page 119:
- Related terms
- occasional bookcase, occasional furniture