| 释义 |
saluki|səˈluːkɪ|
Also selugi, sleughi; slogie, slokee, sloug(h)i, slughi.
[ad. Arab. selūḳī, f. Saluḳ the name of a town in the Yemen.]
A large, lightly built hound belonging to the breed so called, with feathered tail and feet and large pendant ears; formerly called the Persian greyhound. Also attrib.
1809J. G. Jackson Acct. Empire of Marocco v. 31 They often hunt the gazel with the (slogie) African greyhound. 1844J. H. D. Hay Western Barbary xiii. 89/2 The beaters kept good and steady line, and woe to the wild ones that showed themselves to..the swift-footed slokees on the plain. 1891‘Ouida’ in N. Amer. Rev. Sept. 316 The Siberian and the Persian greyhounds are one and the same breed; called sleughi in Persia and Arabia. 1913Dress & Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Oct. 110/2 Among them is a Saluki or gazelle hound. 1924Blackw. Mag. Jan. 24/2 Among them..a few Selugis, Persian greyhounds of as ancient and pure a strain as our own. 1924G. Bell Let. 13 Feb. (1927) II. xxiii. 684 When I came in at 4 from the office I found Marie sitting in the garden looking like a female St. Jerome, with a needle for a book, a slughi dog for a lion and a tame red-legged partridge standing solemnly beside her instead of a quail. 1926Public Opinion 30 July 102/2 A tall great sloughi came out of the house, beating his tail against the posts of the verandah. 1928Evening News 5 May 9 He was requested by the Bey to bring him back a really fine English slougi. 1931C. S. Jarvis Yesterday & To-day in Sinai xi. 212 A Saluki hunt on camel-back. 1938J. W. Day Dog in Sport i. 18 The fleet gazelle-hound of the desert, ancestor of the graceful, tassel-eared Saluki of to-day. 1945C. L. B. Hubbard Observer's Bk. Dogs 134 Being a member of the Greyhound family, the Saluki is extremely old and of the purest descent. It traces back to about 5,000 years b.c., when it was little different to the modern dog of the Arabs of to-day. 1953A. Smith Blind White Fish in Persia ii. 41, 100 miles along it there was a tea house, just a hut with a man outside smoking a hookah and a boy with two Salukis. 1973Country Life 8 Feb. (Suppl.) 33/3 (Advt.), Afghans and Salukis, also Ibizans and Pharoahs (with whom we will be at Crufts). 1978Times 7 Jan. 12/2 Bahrain's pure-bred saluki hound, which recently came close to extinction as a pedigree strain, is making a comeback. |