drink table

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drink table (plural drink tables)

  1. A table located at an event or venue on which beverages are placed so that drinks can be supplied to guests.
    • 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 583:
      The drawing-room seemed an acre of polished floorboards, with complete units for sitting or lounging — drink-table, settee, arm-chairs — placed at intervals along the walls, by the windows that looked down at river and jungle beyond, in the body of the echoing room.