pier tableとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

pier table (plural pier tables)

1. A small table, usually set against the wall between two windows.
   • 1847, Herman Melville, chapter 39, in Omoo‎, page 194:

     There is no telling the love of a Tahitian for a sailor’s trunk. […] When obtained, no pier-table just placed in a drawing-room, is regarded with half the delight.

   • 2001, Jamie O’Neill, chapter 6, in At Swim, Two Boys‎, page 151:

     Curious implements you found in that room. A grape-scissors though never known grapes in the house. A quirl for scraping butter. Longish spoon with holes in it that was called a mote-skimmer: used for straining the strangers off your tea. All laid out on the pier-table, its cloth so starched it might stand on its own.