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2. Coffee table - Wikipedia

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   Later coffee tables were designed as low tables, and this idea may have come from the Ottoman Empire, based on the tables in use in tea gardens. As the Anglo-Japanese style was popular in Britain throughout the 1870s and 1880s, [ 5 ] and low tables were common in Japan , this seems to be an equally likely source for the concept of a long low table.

3. Round table (furniture) - Wikipedia

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   The idea stems from the Arthurian legend about the Knights of the Round Table in Camelot. Today, round tables are often used at conferences involving many parties. The most famous modern round table was the one used for talks between the Communist government and Solidarity in Poland in 1989; see: Polish Round Table Agreement. Hence, the term ...

4. Table (furniture) - Wikipedia

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   Most tables are composed of a flat surface and one or more supports (legs). A table with a single, central foot is a pedestal table. Long tables often have extra legs for support. Dinner table and chairs. Table tops can be in virtually any shape, although rectangular, square, round (e.g. the round table), and oval tops are the

5. List of cooking vessels - Wikipedia

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   As a dolsot does not cool off as soon as removed from the stove, rice continues to cook and arrives at the table still sizzling. [22] Beef stew in a Dutch oven. Dutch oven – a cast iron shallow round pot with a tight-fitting lid with a raised rim around the top. The oven is placed over live coals and live coals placed in the lid as well.

6. Plate (dishware) - Wikipedia

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   A demi-tasse saucer, or coffee saucer is 4.5 inches (11 cm) in diameter. Soup plate has a diameter of 9 inches (23 cm), [ 7 ] a much deeper well and wide rim ("lip"). If the lip is lacking, as often seen in contemporary tableware, it is a "soup bowl".

7. Coffee table book - Wikipedia

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   Coffee table book on a coffee table. A coffee table book, also known as a cocktail table book [citation needed], is an oversized, usually hard-covered book whose purpose is for display on a table intended for use in an area in which one entertains guests and from which it can serve to inspire conversation or pass the time.