A coffee-table book is a large expensive book with a lot of pictures, which is designed to be looked at rather than to be read properly, and is usually placed where people can see it easily
coffee table
Hyphenation
cof·fee ta·ble
Turkish pronunciation
kôfi teybıl
Pronunciation
/ˈkôfē ˈtābəl/ /ˈkɔːfiː ˈteɪbəl/
Etymology
[ 'ko-fE, 'kä- ] (noun.) 1598. Italian and Turkish; Italian caffè, from Turkish kahve, from Arabic qahwa.