Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Pembroke table

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.
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. — F. C. Morse