Pembroke table

American  

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.

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Pembroke table British  

noun

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

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Etymology

Origin of Pembroke table

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

Example Sentences

She shopped local, buying a 100-year-old English Pembroke table from Georgetown’s Pillar & Post, a few miles from her home.

From Washington Post

There were no takers for a Georgian mahogany Pembroke table with a low estimate of £80.

From New York Times

And, if you’ll believe me, there in the front parlour at five punctually to the moment was the Major behind the Pembroke table with both leaves up and a lot of things from the kitchen tidily set out on old newspapers spread atop of it, and there was the Mite stood up on a chair, with his rosy cheeks flushing and his eyes sparkling clusters of diamonds.

From Project Gutenberg

Algernon, coming quietly into the room, beheld his wife and Rhoda seated side by side on a sofa behind the little Pembroke table, and engaged, apparently, in confidential conversation.

From Project Gutenberg

Her work lay unheeded on the Pembroke table.

From Project Gutenberg