toilet-table
See also: toilet table
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]toilet-table (plural toilet-tables)
- Alternative form of toilet table.
- 1847 October 16, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], chapter V, in Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. […], volume II, London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 127:
- You must open the middle drawer of my toilet-table and take out a little phial and a little glass you will find there,—quick!
- 1866, Charles D. Gardette, “Supper, but no Song. (A Traveller’s Story.)”, in Sharpe’s London Magazine of Entertainment and Instruction, for General Reading. […], volume XXIX, London: Arthur Hall, and Co., […]; Rogerson and Tuxford, […], page 257, column 2:
- At this moment my eyes fell upon a champagne bottle, and glasses standing on a toilet-table.
- 2008, Stephen Marche, Shining at the Bottom of the Sea, Penguin, →ISBN:
- Her low bed, oak dresser, and toilet-table could be tucked out of view with a flick of her wrist. In the main area, a plain, solid table with four decent chairs took up one wall, the cast-iron stove and window the other. Crockery, china and linens;...