breakfast tray

noun

A small, lightweight tray with a low rail around the edge used to carry a breakfast meal, sometimes utilised as a serving tray for someone in bed.

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nounbreakfast tray (plural breakfast trays)

plural breakfast trays

  1. A small, lightweight tray with a low rail around the edge used to carry a breakfast meal, sometimes utilised as a serving tray for someone in bed.

    At the moment of our inopportune, but invisible, visit he was sitting up, propped by the pillows, with a breakfast-tray upon his knees.

    1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019
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