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Definition of Council table
1. Noun. The table that conferees sit around as they hold a meeting.
Group relationships: Conference Room
Generic synonyms: Table
Lexicographical Neighbors of Council Table
Literary usage of Council table
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Memoirs of the Court of England During the Reign of the Stuarts,: Including by John Heneage Jesse (1855)
"Remarkable Tarty at the Council-table of ... were a remarkable party who assembled
round the council-table of Charles I. Besides the ..."
2. Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, F.R.S.: Secretary to the by Samuel Pepys, Richard Griffin Braybrooke (1855)
"Chatham-yard, and is vexed that Lord Anglesey did, the other day, complain at
the Council-table of disorders in the Navy, and not to him. ..."
3. Perley's Reminiscences of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis by Benjamin Perley Poore (1886)
"... MANNING, ENDICOTT, WHITNEY, AND LAMAR—POSTMASTER-GENERAL VILAS— ATTORNEY-GENERAL
GARLAND—THE council table- THE inauguration of Grover Cleveland as the ..."
4. Diary, of Thomas Burton, Esq. Member in the Parliaments of Oliver and by Thomas Burton, Goddard, Guibon (1828)
"The council table bit like a serpent; the Star Chamber like scorpions. Two or
three gentlemen could not stir out, for fear of being committed for a riot. ..."
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