The phrase "a tea table" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a small table specifically designed for serving tea or for use in a tea setting.
Example: "She set the tea table with delicate china and fresh pastries for her guests."
Alternatives: "a tea stand" or "a tea set table".
The year is 1827, a generation later, and she sits at what looks like a tea table.
"Two people might sit on the sides with a tea table in the middle, a scene you see in Tang paintings.
In Hanna Rosin's recent Atlantic cover story, "The Touch-Screen Generation," she describes the iPad as functioning "like a tea table without legs".
We must understand that for Rutherford and Locke, and for the Founding Fathers, the bottom line was not an abstract point of conversation over a tea table; at a creation point it had to be acted upon.
They all played like angels round a tea table, enjoying the talk, charmed by Mr. Laredo's beautiful solos and loving to rush together, delightfully, in the last two movements.
The next day, as Mr. WILKESON was passing the Professor's door to an undertaker's, he placed his little son on the watch for him, and as Mr. W. returned he went out and tenderly forced him in, and showed him a room prepared for his use so long as be should stay in Gettysburgh, and then insisted upon his sitting down to a tea table generously and elegantly spread for him and five other strangers.
Dick Miles, who had asked for a pool table for his eleventh birthday, was given a "tea-table table-tennis" set instead.
The host, Shotaro Murakami, a 26-year-old who grew up on Japan's southern islands, met us in the lobby and led us upstairs along a low-ceilinged hallway to our room, whose furnishings consisted entirely of a tatami mat, a futon and a tiny tea table — all the necessities.
A little tea table or a stand would be a good choice.
And so they installed a 21-inch-high platform on the lower floor that allowed for a room-wide window seat, a built-in planter and a low tea table.
Mr. Hung has set up a little tea table on the sidewalk, refilling a thermos from a huge iron kettle that swings gently above the hot coals.
