| 单词 | pembroke table |
| 释义 | > as lemmasPembroke table A small table with a drop-leaf on each side, which may be raised and supported horizontally on a hinged bracket. Chiefly in Pembroke table. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > table > [noun] > table with leaf or flap folded table1504 leaf table1570 Pembroke1778 fly-table1785 flap table1833 Sutherland table1879 gate-table1904 1778 Seducers 5 A pembroke table should this corner grace. 1790 F. Burney Diary Jan. (1842) V. 85 Dr. Fisher says he hopes it was not a card-table, and rather believes it was only a Pembroke work-table. 1792 Elizabeth Percy I. 58 These inlaid Pembrokes of wonderful workmanship. 1853 E. C. Gaskell Cranford viii. 152 Another square Pembroke table..on which there was a kaleidoscope, conversation-cards, puzzle-cards. 1870 A. D. T. Whitney We Girls vi. 105 The little pembroke was wheeled out again. 1925 Scribner's Mag. July 94/1 A Pembroke table with unusual stretchers was in the wood-shed. 1984 Financial Times (Nexis) 18 Aug. i. 13 Modest and honourably undistinguished antiques—run-of-the-mill Victorian dining tables and pembrokes, Georgian oak settles. 1999 Grosvenor House Art & Antiques Fair: 1999 Handbk. 116 (caption) An important George III satinwood, harewood and marquetry Pembroke table in the manner of John Cobb, circa 1775. < as lemmas |
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