loo table
A round table originally designed for playing the card game lanterloo.
Noun
- A round table originally designed for playing the card game lanterloo.
- There was also a loo-table, in an adjoining room, or rather closet, round which the company had just sufficient space to sit, with their chairs close to the wainscot. - 1790, Helen Maria Williams, chapter 22, in Julia,...
- […] in the evening Elizabeth joined their party in the drawing-room. The loo table, however, did not appear. - 1813, Jane Austen, chapter 10, in Pride and Prejudice, volume 1, page 102:
- It was singular to see […] with what a practised hand he put together one article after another. First there was a round loo-table, not quite so large in its circumference as some people might think desirable, but,...