[f. TABLE sb. 18 + DIAMOND.] A diamond cut with a table or large flat upper surface surrounded by small facets; esp. a thin diamond so cut having a flat under surface.
1470. N. C. Wills (Surt., 1903), 56. A ringe of gold with table dyamond.
1519. Lett. & P. Hen. VIII., III. No. 463 (P.R.O.). A black carkeyn with a syphre … garnysshed with three table diamauntes, oon losenge diamaund, oon great poynted diamaunt.
1607. in Heriot’s Mem., App. VII. (1822), 212. A ringe, with a table diamond on the head.
1750. D. Jeffries, Diamonds & Pearls, 58. The manufacture of Table and Rose Diamonds.
1833. Encycl. Brit., VIII. 6. The forms into which the diamond is cut are the brilliant, the rose, and the table.
1877. W. Jones, Finger-ring, 379. A ring with seventy-five table-diamonds, set in gold.
