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Definition of Duroc
1. a large red hog [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Duroc
Literary usage of Duroc
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Wit, Wisdom and Foibles of the Great: Together with Numerous Anecdotes by Charles Anthony Shriner (1918)
"On his return he was surprised to find duroc waiting for him with an air of great
... duroc had been touched with the despair of the Princess of Hatzfeld; ..."
2. Cyclopedia of American Agriculture: A Popular Survey of Agricultural by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1908)
"It is said that the boar was named " duroc " after a famous stallion, ...
The duroc also had lopped ears, but it was a much finer type of pig than the ..."
3. American Roadsters and Trotting Horses: Being a Sketch of the Trotting by Henry T. Helm (1878)
"The great defect with Alhambra and his produce was identical with the case of
this stallion Messenger duroc, the Eclipse and Mam- brino Chief blood brought ..."
4. Pork-production by William Wesley Smith, Robert Alexander Craig (1920)
"THE duroc-JERSEY (PLATE x) Much uncertainty exists regarding the exact ...
Like the Poland-China, the duroc- Jersey is now being bred for greater scale. ..."
5. Agriculture by William Penn Brooks (1911)
"It is believed by many to be descended from the original Berkshire, which many
years ago often resembled, in color at least, the present duroc Jersey. ..."
6. Lives of Lord Castlereagh and Sir Charles Stewart, the Second and Third by Sir Archibald Alison (1861)
"duroc, sad and preoccupied, bore a mournful expression in his whole figure.
I moved along sometimes speaking to him, and he said, ' My friend the Emperor is ..."
7. Frank Forester's Horse and Horsemanship of the United States and British by Henry William Herbert (1857)
"As connected with the memoir of duroc, a notice of Diomed, his sire, and of Gray
Diomed, the sire of his dam, Amanda, may not be unacceptable. ..."
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