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2. Drop-leaf table - Wikipedia

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   A drop-leaf table is a table that has a fixed section in the center and a hinged section (leaf) on either side that can be folded down (dropped). If the leaf is supported by a bracket when folded up, the table is simply a drop-leaf table; if the leaf is supported by legs that swing out from the center, it is known as a gateleg table.

3. Gateleg table - Wikipedia

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   Gateleg tables are a subset of the type known as a dropleaf. The hinged section, or flap, was supported on pivoted legs joined at the top and bottom by stretchers constituting a gate. Large flaps had two supports, which had the advantage of providing freer leg space in the centre. [ 1] The earliest gateleg tables of the 16th and 17th century ...

4. Table (furniture) - Wikipedia

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   A formally laid table, set with a dinner service. Nested tables. Tables of various shapes, heights, and sizes are designed for specific uses: Dining room tables are designed to be used for formal dining. Bedside tables, nightstands, or night tables are small tables used in a bedroom.

5. Welsh dresser - Wikipedia

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   Welsh dresser. A Welsh dresser, sometimes known as a kitchen dresser, pewter cupboard or china hutch, is a piece of wooden furniture consisting of drawers and cupboards in the lower part, with shelves and perhaps a sideboard on top. Traditionally, it is a utilitarian piece of furniture used to store and display crockery, silverware and pewter ...

6. Elizabethan and Jacobean furniture - Wikipedia

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   The design of the scallop shell back for chairs is associated with the designer Francis Cleyn who worked in England from the 1620s. [2] Settees were made at this time whose backs consisted of several just such immense scallops as those of these Holland House Gilt Chamber chairs; [ 3 ] and the same idea of decoration peeps out in fan-like frills ...

7. Dining room - Wikipedia

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   A dining room is a room for consuming food. In modern times it is usually adjacent to the kitchen for convenience in serving, although in medieval times it was often on an entirely different floor level. Historically the dining room is furnished with a rather large dining table and several dining chairs; the most common shape is generally ...