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means A small, lightweight folding table designed for playing cards and other games, often set up temporarily and packed away afterward.

from A transparent compound of "card" + "table." "Card" entered English in the 15th century from Old French "carte," from Latin "charta" (a leaf of paper or papyrus), itself borrowed from Greek "khartēs." "Table" comes from Latin "tabula," a board or plank. The specific phrase "card table" naming a dedicated piece of furniture took hold once card-playing became a fashionable social pastime, and the foldable version owes its existence to that same instinct — a surface you conjure for the game and banish before the guests notice the scratches.