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Meanings of plain table in English

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Usage of plain table in English
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Two cane chairs and a plain table comprised the whole of the furniture.
Armadale
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General Cass sat at a small, plain table, engaged in writing.
Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs, Vol. 1
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A good, plain table is what I keep-onlylast night it wasn't good.
Miss Gibbie Gault
4
Another stood nearby, beside a plain table on which sat three large silver chalices.
The great hunt
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It had bare walls, a plain table and chairs, and a crucifix in the corner.
Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill
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M. de Haller kept a good and abundant though plain table; he only drank water.
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 1...
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In the middle stood the long, plain table around which the storm-racked Cabinet were wont to gather.
The Southerner: A Romance of the Real Lincoln
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In one part of it stood several upholstered chairs with covers on, cluttered about a plain table.
Tramping on Life / An Autobiographical Narrative
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She sat facing him, on the other side of the plain table, her open report-book before her.
The White Sister
10
The room was basic, even utilitarian, with scuffed walls, a plain table and two chairs -nothing more.
Brave New World
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The interview was brief; and, seated at a plain table, the two commanders wrote and exchanged the accompanying papers:
A Life of Gen. Robert E. Lee
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Upon a plain table, next to a narrow bed carefully made, rested a frosted-glass globe on an iron pedestal.
Dhampir
13
Behind the pit, in a dark niche, is a plain table within rails; so you see the throne is for the apostle.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3
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Only the very highest cream of the inner elect have plain table cloths and a little silver like we do at home.
Elizabeth Visits America
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Blake led the way in and across to the plain table-desk where a young clerk was checking up a surveyor's field book.
Out of the Primitive
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There is a plain table and three chairs, a coal-burning iron stove, and little else besides an upright clock and a counter.
Hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the world: a novel
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