ANTIQUE DUNCAN PHYFE TABLES

Butterfly Leaf Dining Tables

dining tables


A table on which meals are served in a dining room


The first dining tables of which survivors remain are the type known as refectory tables. They are made usually of oak, and one of the earliest, at Penshurst Place in Kent, has a typical thick top of joined planks supported on three separate trestles.

butterfly


diurnal insect typically having a slender body with knobbed antennae and broad colorful wings


An insect with two pairs of large wings that are covered with tiny scales, usually brightly colored, and typically held erect when at rest. Butterflies fly by day, have clubbed or dilated antennae, and usually feed on nectar


flutter like a butterfly


a swimming stroke in which the arms are thrown forward together out of the water while the feet kick up and down


A fluttering and nauseated sensation felt in the stomach when one is nervous


A showy or frivolous person

leaf


a sheet of any written or printed material (especially in a manuscript or book)


flick: look through a book or other written material; "He thumbed through the report"; "She leafed through the volume"


Foliage regarded collectively


Any of a number of similar plant structures, e.g., bracts, sepals, and petals


the main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants


A flattened structure of a higher plant, typically green and bladelike, that is attached to a stem directly or via a stalk. Leaves are the main organs of photosynthesis and transpiration