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Alsatian, a. and n.|ælˈseɪʃ(ɪ)ən|
[f. prec. + -an.]
1. Of or belonging to Alsatia. Also n., an inhabitant of Alsatia; a debtor or criminal in sanctuary.
1691Luttrell Brief Rel. (1857) II. 259 The benchers of the Inner Temple, having given orders for bricking up their little gate leading into Whitefryers..the Alsatians came and pull'd it down. 1704Gentl. Instr. (1732) 491 (D.) Here he struck up with sharpers, scourers, and Alsatians. 1822Scott Nigel xvii. (1878) 209 The true Alsatian bully.
2. The registered Kennel Club name for the German Shepherd Dog (deutscher Schäferhund), formerly known as the Alsatian wolf-dog (occas. Alsatian wolf-hound).
The name Alsatian was adopted in order to avoid the associations of German. The dog does not belong to Alsace, nor is there a wolf strain in its composition.
1917A. Croxton Smith in Ladies' Field 12 May 416/3 The French or Alsatian sheepdogs, which are now becoming familiarised to us. 1922R. Leighton Compl. Bk. Dog 119 The dogs lately introduced into Great Britain as the Alsatian Wolfdog and into the United States as the German sheepdog. Ibid. 120 The Alsatian was known in England before the war. 1923[see wolf-hound]. 1926D. Brockwell (title) The Alsatian. Ibid. 25 The so-called Police Dog, or German Shepherd Dog,..variously known as the Alsatian Wolf Dog, Belgian Police Dog, and French Police Dog. 1948C. L. B. Hubbard Dogs in Britain xviii. 197 The breed [German Shepherd Dog], on its re-importation during 1918–1919, was named Alsatian Wolfdog. |