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Definition of Curly-coated retriever
1. Noun. An English breed having a tightly curled black or liver-colored coat; retrieves game from land or water.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Curly-coated Retriever
Literary usage of Curly-coated retriever
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Complete Dog Book by William A. Bruette (1922)
"curly-coated retriever The curly-coated retriever is a much older breed than the
Flat-coat, which has to a great extent displaced him in the affections of ..."
2. The Dogs of the British Islands: Being a Series of Articles on the Points of by John Henry Walsh (1882)
"I insert the altered scale : POINTS OP THE curly-coated retriever. ... but in
the curly-coated retriever the hair must be short and curly, and though not ..."
3. The Twentieth Century Dog by Herbert Compton (1904)
"THE curly-coated retriever The curly-coated retriever has been described ...
Here is Mr. Robert Paterson's description of an ideal curly-coated retriever, ..."
4. A History and Description of the Modern Dogs of Great Britain and Ireland by Rawdon Briggs Lee (1897)
"Still, there is no getting away from the fact that the curly-coated retriever
does not bear a good reputation. He is inclined to be hard-mouthed, ie, ..."
5. The Dogs of the British Islands: Being a Series of Articles on the Points of by John Henry Walsh (1878)
"... THE BLACK curly-coated retriever. Little or nothing seems to be known of the
history of this dog, now so extensively bred throughout the United Kingdom. ..."
6. The Encyclopaedia of Sport by Henry Charles Howard Suffolk, Hedley Peek, Frederick George Aflalo (1897)
"The older variety is the curly-coated retriever ; indeed, until a comparatively
recent date, say twenty-five years ago, the flat-coated variety was hardly ..."
7. British Dogs, Their Points, Selection, and Show Preparation by William D. Drury (1903)
"THE curly-coated retriever As remarked at the beginning of this chapter, the
curly-coated retriever is not nearly so popular as his Flat-coated relative, ..."
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