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Toggenburg|ˈtɒgənbɜːg|
Also Toggenburgh.
The name of a valley in the canton of St. Gall, N.E. Switzerland, used attrib. and absol. to designate a hornless light brown goat belonging to a breed first developed in the region.
1886H. S. H. Pegler Bk. Goat (ed. 3) iii. 27 The Toggenburgh goat is generally hornless, and of a rather unusual colour, being a pale drab. 1891Goat-Keeper Sept. 7/2 Champion Zampa, Swiss Toggenburg Goat, 5 years old, short-haired, hornless. 1921Blackw. Mag. June 764/2 The white Nanny and her kid are Alpino goats, and the brown lot are Toggenburgs. 1937E. B. White Let. 9 Sept. (1976) 162 He lives there, with a wife, three children, and a Toggenburg goat. 1979B. Malamud Dubin's Lives ix. 356 One of the Toggenburgs was killed in the goat pasture by a dog. |