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Definition of Pier table
1. Noun. A low table set below a pier glass.
Definition of Pier table
1. Noun. A small table, usually set against the wall between two windows. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pier Table
Literary usage of Pier table
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Furniture of Our Forefathers by Esther Singleton, Russell Sturgis (1913)
"This small piece of lass may be fixed either in the dado of the room or in he
frame of the table." A single candelabrum stands upon :ach pier-table. ..."
2. The Furniture of Our Forefathers by Esther Singleton, Russell Sturgis (1906)
"This small piece of glass may be fixed either in the dado of the room or in the
frame of the table." A single candelabrum stands upon each pier-table. ..."
3. An Encyclopædia of Domestic Economy by Thomas Webster, William Parkes (1855)
"329 is a small pier bookcase, to put between windows in the manner of a pier
table ; or a place for books may form part of a ..."
4. Furniture by Esther Singleton (1911)
"Above the pier-table the mirror hung, " fixed very low," nearly reaching the slab
of the pier-table. ..."
5. The Stowe Catalogue, Priced and Annotated by Henry Rumsey Forster (1848)
"SM Peto, Esq., MP 43 1 0 998 A clock, by Bâillon, in a case of or-molu, in old
French taste T. Fitzgerald, Esq. 20 9 6 999 A beautiful pier-table, of buhl, ..."
6. A Guide to the Knowledge of Pottery, Porcelain, and Other Objects of Vertu by Henry George Bohn, Ralph Bernal (1857)
"4145 A SUPERB CARVED AND GILT pier table, the legs formed of four terminal figures,
with shells and festoons of flowers ; a group of a stag and dogs on the ..."
7. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the English Courts of Common Law by Great Britain Bail Court (1872)
"I submit that the witnesses might have attested the will on the pier table, or
the moveable table, or that the testator might have got out of bed and come ..."
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