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PEDESTAL TABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pedestal table mean? 

PEDESTAL TABLE (noun)
  The noun PEDESTAL TABLE has 1 sense:

1. a table supported by a single central columnplay

  Familiarity information: PEDESTAL TABLE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PEDESTAL TABLE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A table supported by a single central column

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("pedestal table" is a kind of...):

table (a piece of furniture having a smooth flat top that is usually supported by one or more vertical legs)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pedestal table"):

tilt-top table; tip-top table; tip table (a pedestal table whose top is hinged so that it can be tilted to a vertical position)


 Context examples 


It stood on a small pedestal table with an old dressing-gown of Holmes’s so draped round it that the illusion from the street was absolutely perfect.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)



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