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table lighters

table lighters is the plural of table lighter.

Meaning of table lighter

Noun

table lighter (plural table lighters)

  1. 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

Questions about table lighters

What is table lighters the plural of?
Table lighters is the plural of table lighter.

Words near table lighters in the dictionary

  1. table knife
  2. table knives
  3. table lamp
  4. table lamps
  5. table lighter
  6. table lighters
  7. table linen
  8. table linens
  9. table manners
  10. table mat
  11. table mats

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