Briard
(brɪˈɑː(d))
[Fr., adj. of Brie (region of France).]
A sheep-dog of a breed of French origin.
| 1934 in Webster. 1938 A. Woollcott Let. (1946) vii. 168 The livestock there has been augmented by a Briard. He..is known as Mugwump and is roughly the size of the National Gallery. 1948 C. L. B. Hubbard Dogs in Britain 191 The Briard (Chien de Brie), a French Sheepdog taken from Corsica to Egypt during the Napoleonic expedition. 1967 H. Kemelman Nine Mile Walk (1968) 156 Duke was no ordinary dog. He was a briard, a Belgian sheepdog, a huge creature with a long rough iron-grey coat, the shaggy fur covering even his face. |