coffee-table book

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   an elaborate oversize book suitable for displaying on a coffee table

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Questions about coffee-table book

What does coffee-table book mean?

coffee-table book means "an elaborate oversize book suitable for displaying on a coffee table".

Is coffee-table book a common word?

coffee-table book is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.