PEMBROKE TABLE Definition & Meaning

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

noun

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

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of Pembroke table¹

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

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of Pembroke table¹

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

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

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

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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.

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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.

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Her work lay unheeded on the Pembroke table.

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Pembrokeshire pemmican

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