| 单词 |
side-table |
| 释义 |
ˈside-table
[side n.1 23.]
A table placed beside the wall of a room (esp. a dining-room), or to the side of a main or high table.
1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xii. 200 Þo þat seten atte syde table or with þe souereignes of þe halle. 1393― C. xvi. 42 Pacience and ich..seten by ous selue at a syd-table. c1450in Aungier Syon (1840) 377 Other sustres schal sytte at the syde tables in ther order as they be professyd. 1483Cely Papers (Camden) 135 We schuld paye noo more for owre burdd but iij s. iiij d. fl. a weke at the hye tabull and ij s. viij d. at the syde tabull. c1500For to serve a Lord in Babees Bk. (1868) 368 After the high principall tabill sette with brede & salte, thenne salte-selers shall be sette uppon the syde-tablys. 1617Moryson Itin. iii. 135 Towards the confines of Flanders, the Hoasts onely cover the table, and a side table, upon which everie passenger hath his glasse. 1665Pepys Diary 13 Sept., The wind, blowing into the room.., flung down a great blow-pott that stood upon the side-table. 1710Addison Tatler No. 148 ⁋10, I saw a noble Sirloin on the Side-Table. 1760–72H. Brooke Fool of Qual. (1809) IV. 58 Harry ordered a side-table to be covered for him and them. 1848Dickens Dombey xxvi, Besides which, the Native had private zests and flavours on a side-table, with which the Major daily scorched himself. 1888‘J. S. Winter’ Bootle's Childr. xiii, The pantry-boy and the two kitchen-maids..took their own meals at a side-table in the same room. |
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