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.
A table on which meals are served in a dining room
diurnal insect typically having a slender body with knobbed antennae and broad colorful wings
A showy or frivolous person
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
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