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Definition of Dandie Dinmont
1. Noun. A breed of small terrier with long wiry coat and drooping ears.
Definition of Dandie Dinmont
1. n. In Scott's "Guy Mannering", a Border farmer of eccentric but fine character, who owns two terriers claimed to be the progenitors of the Dandie Dinmont terriers.
Definition of Dandie Dinmont
1. Noun. A terrier of a small Scottish breed with long body, short legs, and a distinctive "top-knot" of hair on the head. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dandie Dinmont
Literary usage of Dandie Dinmont
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Dogs of the British Islands: Being a Series of Articles on the Points of by John Henry Walsh (1878)
"... I have only been able to discover the whereabouts of a few which have any
pretensions to the original mainland breed.—PRL" THE Dandie Dinmont TERRIER. ..."
2. The Dogs of the British Islands: Being a Series of Articles on the Points of by John Henry Walsh (1882)
"... inquiry I have only been able to discover the whereabouts of a few which have
any pretensions to the original mainland breed.—PEL" THE Dandie Dinmont ..."
3. Visits to Remarkable Places: Old Halls, Battlefields and Scenes Illustrative by William Howitt (1842)
"I found Dagg a thorough Dandie Dinmont. Dandie he used lo know; and Hogg, he
knew; and he had all the hearty frankness and bluntness of Dandie. ..."
4. The Twentieth Century Dog by Herbert Compton (1904)
"Something of the bitter insularity that hedges the British bulldog - fancier
appears to attach to the Dandie Dinmont devotee, as of the priest of a shrine ..."
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