English Dictionary

coffee-table book

名詞

別表記 異形

Alternative form of coffee table book

日本語の意味

『coffee-table book』は、『coffee table book』の活用形（代替表記）です。つまり、一般にコーヒーテーブルに置かれる、装飾的で写真やイラストの多い本を指す意味として使われる言葉の別表記です。

She left a new coffee-table book about modern architecture on the sofa to spark conversation.

彼女は会話を誘うために、ソファの上に現代建築に関する大型の写真集を置いた。

意味（1）

Alternative form of coffee table book

Nonbooks are of several kinds; but their differences notwithstanding, they all share two common features: they tend to be written for market rather than for intellectual reasons, and they are all means rather than ends. … Of all nonbooks, the most conspicuous example is the ‘coffee-table book’. The latter usually find their market by virtue of their decorative assets rather than from any literary or intellectual merit, or for that matter – since such works are often art books – by significantly serving important aesthetic or historical purposes.

coffee-table books （ plural ）