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pembroke table
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pembroke table, [From Pembroke , a town and shire in Wales.].
A style of four-legged drop-leaf table in vogue in England, chiefly in the later Georgian period. [1913 Webster]
"The characteristic which gives a table the name of Pembroke consists in the drop leaves, which are held up, when the table is open, by brackets which turn under the top." [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
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