The colonial furniture of New England : A study of the domestic furniture in use in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (1892)
Lyon, Irving Whitall, 1840-1896 · Boston, New York : Houghton, Mifflin · leaf 340
Piers thePloughman, and by Chaucer, and in the beginningof the fifteenth century it was employed by Lydgatein his minor poems published by the Percy Societyoftener, indeed, than the old word board. During the next two centuries the English din-ing-table went under one or the other of these… … Fig. 77 ROUNDABOUT CHAIR 1 7SO-60 TABLES 191 was practically superseded by the former, which thusbecame the standard name. Thus in Shakespeare table, in the sense of a placefor meals, is written between five and six times asoften as the older word board. In Wycliffes trans-lation of the Bible, made…
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