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gateleg table: tags: [garniture]

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a type of furniture first introduced in England in the 16th century. The table top has a fixed section and one or two hinged leaves, which, when not in use, fold down below the fixed section to hang vertically.

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Now that’s a nice gate-leg table in the corner there. Though of course you’d have to put new hinges on it if you wanted to use the flaps.

George Orwell. 1984 (1949)

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