coffee table

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Etymology

From coffee +‎ table.

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Noun

coffee table (plural coffee tables)

  1. (furniture) A long, low table, often placed in front of a sofa or seating area in a living room.
    Synonym: occasional table
    Hypernym: table
    • 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 26:
      We were just settling ourselves around the coffee-table, when several friends from the parsonage arrived.
  2. (furniture, originally) A table from which coffee is served.

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