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talbot1|ˈtɔːlbət|
[Understood to be derived from the ancient Eng. family name Talbot: see quot. 1906 in sense 1; but evidence is wanting.
Chaucer has Talbot as the name of an individual dog; and in quot. c 1449, John Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury, is called ‘Talbott oure goode dogge’ (in allusion to the badge of the family: see sense 2); but it is not clear what is the nature of the connexion between these applications, or which of the senses 1 and 2 was the earlier.
c1386Chaucer Nun's Pr. T. 562 Colle oure dogge, and Talbot and Gerland. c1449in Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 222 He is bownden that oure dore shuld kepe, That is Talbott oure goode dogge.]
1. Name of a variety of hound, formerly used for tracking and hunting; a large white or light-coloured hound, having long hanging ears, heavy jaws, and great powers of scent.
1562Leigh Armorie 96 b, A Talbot with coller and Lyame, these houndes pursue the foote of pray, by sente of y⊇ same, orels by y⊇ bloud thereof. 1615Markham Country Contentm. i. 5 The black hound, the black laund,..or the milk white, which is the true Talbot, are best for the string or lyam, for they doe delight most in blood, and haue a naturall inclination to hunt dry-foot. 1654Wase tr. Gratii Falisci Cynegeticon B ij b, Then match them well; and thus a noble seed Derive, these parents will your Talbot [L. Metagonta] breed. 1668Charleton Onomast. 23 Sagax, a Blood-hound, or Talbot. 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Talbot, a kind of Hound or Hunting-Dog. 1735Somerville Chase i. 290 The bold Talbot kind Of these the prime, as white as Alpine snows. 1870D. P. Blaine Encycl. Rur. Sports §1428 The talbot..is supposed to be the original stock from whence all the varieties of the scent hunting hounds are derived. 1906Blackw. Mag. Sept. 381/1 The same white hounds were brought to England by the head of the Talbot family, and rapidly gaining credit for their qualities in the chase of the stag..were known as Talbots.
2. A representation of a hound or hunting-dog; esp. in Her. that which has been borne for many centuries by the Talbot family.
1491N.C. Wills (Surtees 1908) 62 A standing cupp of silver parcell gilt with talbottes at the fete. 1537Will Geo. Talbot, Earl Shrewsbury Ibid. 145, ij paier of pottes with flatt Talbottes upon the cover, ij paier of pottes with standing Talbottes upon the cover. 1562[see 1]. 1603Drayton Bar. Wars ii. xxvii, Behold the Eagles, Lyons, Talbots, Beares, The Badges of your famous Ancestries. 1610J. Guillim Heraldry iii. xvi. 147 Hee beareth Or, a Fesse Dauncette, betweene three Talbottes passant, Sable, by the name of Carrick. 1688R. Holme Armoury ii. 184/2 He beareth Gules, a Talbott, (or Blood-hound, or hunting hound) Or. 1884Mag. Art Jan. 102 Another drinking vessel..is in form of a ‘talbot’, or dog, seated, and richly collared.
†3. Name of a dish in cookery. Obs.
c1430Two Cookery Bks. 19 Talbottys.—Take an Hare, an fle hem clene; þen take þe blode, & Brede, an Spycery, an grynde y-fere, & drawe it vppe with þe brothe [etc.].
4. Comb. as talbot-like adj.
1615Markham Country Contentm. i. 5 A large, heauy, slow, true Talbot-like hound. |