table lighter

noun

table lighter

noun
1

A lighter for cigarettes, etc., often ornately decorated, designed to be kept or placed on a table.

  • Smoke rose high - cigarette and golden table-lighters brought round by undeferential white-coated flunkeys - but there was nothing to drink except orange crush - officially.1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 292:

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