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Pembroke

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Pembroke, town, Canada

Pembroke (pĕm`brōk), town (1991 pop. 13,997), SE Ont., Canada, NW of Ottawa, on the Ottawa River. It is a lumbering center and also has steel and electric-products factories.

Pembroke, town, Wales

Pembroke (pĕm`brk), Welsh Penfro, town (1991 pop. 7,049), Pembrokeshire, SW Wales, on an inlet of the Milford Haven estuary. The town is an agricultural market with tourism, ship repairing, and light industries. It was formerly the site of several military bases. Pembroke Dock, the town's older section, is mainly industrial. Pembroke contains a 10th-century priory and 12th-century castle. Henry VII was born there.
Pembroke
1. a town in SW Wales, in Pembrokeshire on Milford Haven: 11th-century castle where Henry VII was born. Pop. (with Pembroke Dock): 15 890 (2001)
2. the smaller variety of corgi, usually having a short tail


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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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