coffee-table book

a book that is more suitable for display than for reading, typically, an oversize, illustrated book left on the coffee table for visitors to examine. This book is more of a coffee-table book than an art book. I prefer something more scholarly. We purchased a coffee-table book for Jan's birthday.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Mumtaz	-	Arabic
Aldegar	-	Ancient Germanic
Suri	-	Yiddish
Zelpha	-	Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek
Anna	AN-a (English), AHN-nah (Italian, Dutch, Norwegian, Finnish, Polish), AH-nah (German, Russian), AN-nah (Danish)	English, Italian, German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Estonian, Latvian, Greek, Hung
Sherman	['ʃə:mən]