| 单词 | coffee table book |
| 释义 | > as lemmascoffee table book As a modifier. Designating a large, expensive-looking book that is intended for display or casual browsing, and typically contains many photographs or other illustrations; esp. in coffee table book. Also designating a magazine, etc., with a similar appearance and purpose. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > kind of book > [noun] > ornamental book tablebook1832 furniture1928 coffee table book1960 1960 Daily Mail 20 Oct. 8/1 Nor do I mean only the bonzer known in the trade as the ‘coffee-table book’..left around to display taste and status. 1966 Archit. Rev. 139 419/4 This has the format and lavish presentation of the fashionable coffee-table volume, but deserves to be taken more seriously. 1973 Sunday Tel. 11 Feb. 18/4 Do you fancy yourself featuring with radiant, trendy smugness in that lush coffee-table tome ‘Great Contemporary Art Collectors’? 1988 Times 8 June 14/1 The coffee table book has been replaced by the coffee table magazine, many projecting an idealized image of rural life and an unattainable standard of gracious living. 2019 Toronto Star (Nexis) 15 Oct. (Life section) 1 Take a leisurely flip through this gorgeous coffee-table picture book and let your imagination run wild. < as lemmas |
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