| 单词 | orange belton |
| 释义 | > as lemmasorange belton An English setter dog having a distinctive flecked colouring characteristic of the Laverack type; (also) this colouring. Often attributive and usually with modifying word indicating the colour of the flecking, as blue belton, orange belton, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > other types of dog > [noun] > setter > varieties of English setter1790 red setter1830 Gordon setter1865 Irish setter1866 Belton1872 Laverack setter1878 1872 E. Laverack Setter iii. 15 I have found the coats of the black tans coarser..and more wiry in texture than the jet blacks, black and whites, blue Beltons, [etc.]. 1922 R. Leighton Compl. Bk. Dog iii. 163 Thirty years ago it [sc. the English setter] was known by several distinct names, among the more important being the Blue Beltons. 1971 F. Hamilton World Encycl. Dogs 245 One of the chief attractions of the breed is the variety of permissible colours; blue belton (black and white), orange or lemon belton (orange or lemon and white), blue belton and tan (black, white and tan, or tricolor) and liver belton. 1993 Outdoor Canada Sept. 35/1 My blue belton English setter, faithful companion of many gunning seasons. 2006 Tampa (Florida) Tribune (Nexis) 16 Jan. (Final ed.) (Metro section) 1 Nearby, Samantha Peet, 14, and her orange Belton English setter, Trevor, waited for the second round of the junior showmanship contest. < as lemmas |
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