Pembroke table

or pembroke table


noun
  1. a drop-leaf table with fly rails and with a drawer at one end or each end of the skirt.

Origin of Pembroke table

1
First recorded in 1770–80; perhaps named after Pembroke, English aristocratic family

Words Nearby Pembroke table

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How to use Pembroke table in a sentence

  • The Pembroke table, the mahogany escritoire, the pier glasses and girandoles and other items were plainly eighteenth century.

    Old Country Inns of England | Henry P. Maskell

British Dictionary definitions for Pembroke table

Pembroke table

noun
  1. a small table with drop leaves and often one or more drawers

Origin of Pembroke table

1
perhaps named after Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke (1561–1621), who originally ordered its design

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