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Pembroke

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n.1.A breed of dog, the smaller and straight-legged variety of Welsh corgi having pointed ears and a short tail.
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Noun1.PembrokePembroke - the smaller and straight-legged variety of corgi having pointed ears and a short tail
Pembroke Welsh corgi
corgi, Welsh corgi - either of two Welsh breeds of long-bodied short-legged dogs with erect ears and a fox-like head
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] Born in London in 1552, the son of a clothmaker, Spenser past from the newly established Merchant Taylors' school to Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, as a sizar, or poor student, and during the customary seven years of residence took the degrees of B.
A History of English Literature by Fletcher, Robert Huntington View in context
Knightley must take his seat with the rest round the large modern circular table which Emma had introduced at Hartfield, and which none but Emma could have had power to place there and persuade her father to use, instead of the smallsized Pembroke, on which two of his daily meals had, for forty years been crowded.
Emma by Austen, Jane View in context
I do not wonder that Newton, with an attention habitually engaged on the paths of planets and suns, should have wondered what the Earl of Pembroke found to admire in "stone dolls.
Essays, First Series by Emerson, Ralph Waldo View in context
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