PEMBROKE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Pembroke mean? 

• PEMBROKE (noun)
  The noun PEMBROKE has 1 sense:

1. the smaller and straight-legged variety of corgi having pointed ears and a short tail

  Familiarity information: PEMBROKE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PEMBROKE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The smaller and straight-legged variety of corgi having pointed ears and a short tail

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Pembroke; Pembroke Welsh corgi

Hypernyms ("Pembroke" is a kind of...):

corgi; Welsh corgi (either of two Welsh breeds of long-bodied short-legged dogs with erect ears and a fox-like head)

 Context examples 

The Pembroke Welsh Corgi is a long, low dog with large erect ears, a broad flat skull and a fox-like head.

(Pembroke Welsh Corgi, NCI Thesaurus)

It tends to be a heavier than the Pembroke Welsh Corgi.

(Cardigan Welsh Corgi, NCI Thesaurus)

The dream must be borne with, and Mr. 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 small-sized Pembroke, on which two of his daily meals had, for forty years been crowded.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)