loo table

• loo-table

loo table (plural loo tables)

1. A round table originally designed for playing the card game lanterloo.
   • 1790, Helen Maria Williams, chapter 22, in Julia‎^[1], volume 2, page 33:

     There was also a loo-table, in an adjoining room, or rather closet, round which the company had just sufficient space to sit, with their chairs close to the wainscot.

   • 1813, Jane Austen, chapter 10, in Pride and Prejudice‎^[2], volume 1, page 102:

     […] in the evening Elizabeth joined their party in the drawing-room. The loo table, however, did not appear.

   • 1862, Anthony Trollope, chapter 6, in Orley Farm‎^[3], volume 1, pages 46-47:

     It was singular to see […] with what a practised hand he put together one article after another. First there was a round loo-table, not quite so large in its circumference as some people might think desirable, but, nevertheless, a round loo-table. The pedestal with its three claws was all together.

• “loo”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.