table lighter en · NOUN
Meanings
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A lighter for cigarettes, etc., often ornately decorated, designed to be kept or placed on a table.
Smoke rose high - cigarette and golden table-lighters brought round by undeferential white-coated flunkeys - but there was nothing to drink except orange crush - officially.
1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 292:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| table lighters | Number=Plur | lexicographic |