corner table


noun

a table of the 18th century having a triangular top with a triangular drop leaf of the same size.
Also called handkerchief table.

Origin of corner table

First recorded in 1920–25

Example sentences from the Web for corner table

  • There was lying on a corner-table, pored over by a lawyer-like individual—that formidable instrument, a marriage-settlement.

    Agatha's Husband |Dinah Maria Craik (AKA: Dinah Maria Mulock)
  • I had embarked on my letter, there at the end of a corner-table of the saloon, when I saw Dacres saunter through.

    The Pool in the Desert |Sara Jeanette Duncan