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A refectory table is a highly elongated table [1] used originally for dining in monasteries during Medieval times. In the Late Middle Ages, the table gradually became a banqueting or feasting table in castles and other noble residences. The original table manufacture was by hand and created of oak or walnut; the design is based on a trestle style.
A refectory (also frater, frater house, fratery) is a dining room, especially in monasteries, boarding schools and academic institutions. One of the places the term is most often used today is in graduate seminaries .
An expandable table with chairs. This is a list of furniture types. Furniture can be free-standing or built-in to a building. [1] They typically include pieces such as chairs, tables, storage units, and desks. [1] These objects are usually kept in a house or other building to make it suitable or comfortable for living or working in.
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(4) The refectorian, who had charge of the frater or refectory and its furniture, including such things as crockery, cloths, dishes, spoons, forks etc. (5) The kitchener, who presided over the cookery department, not only for the community but for all guests, dependants etc. (6) The novice master whose assistant was sometimes called the "zelator".
A lavatorium was therefore provided near the refectory, [1] either against one wall of the cloister with a long trench basin, or as a free-standing building with a circular or octagonal basin in the centre. [2] An example of the first type, dating to the 14th century, survives at Gloucester Cathedral, and has a towel cupboard nearby.
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In woodworking, a trestle table is a table consisting of two or three trestle supports, often linked by a stretcher (longitudinal cross-member), over which a board or tabletop is placed. [1] In the Middle Ages , the trestle table was often little more than loose boards over trestle legs for ease of assembly and storage. [ 2 ]