Pembroke table

or pembroke table

noun

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

Pembroke table

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

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

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

April 25, 2024firkin

[fur-kin ]

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