单词 | saluki |
释义 | salukin. 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 attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > hound > [noun] > unspecified or other types of talbot1562 kibble1590 saluki1809 redbone1886 Plott1904 blue-tick1922 blue-tick coonhound1922 Basenji1933 Illyrian hound1964 Pharaoh hound1967 1809 J. G. Jackson Acct. Empire of Marocco v. 31 They often hunt the gazel with the (slogie) African greyhound. 1844 J. 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. 1913 Dress & Vanity Fair Oct. 110/2 Among them is a Saluki or gazelle hound. 1923 Daily Mail 6 Feb. 6 Every known breed, including some rarities like the Saluki, or Arabian greyhound. 1924 Blackwood's Mag. Jan. 24/2 Among them..a few Selugis, Persian greyhounds of as ancient and pure a strain as our own. 1924 G. 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. 1926 Public Opinion 30 July 102/2 A tall great sloughi came out of the house, beating his tail against the posts of the verandah. 1927 H. Carter Tomb of Tut-ankh-amen II. 16 His slughi hounds are especially included in scenes suggesting fondness of field sport. 1928 Evening News 5 May 9 He was requested by the Bey to bring him back a really fine English slougi. 1931 C. S. Jarvis Yesterday & To-day in Sinai xi. 212 A Saluki hunt on camel-back. 1938 J. W. Day Dog in Sport i. 18 The fleet gazelle-hound of the desert, ancestor of the graceful, tassel-eared Saluki of to-day. 1945 C. 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. 1953 A. 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. 1973 Country Life 8 Feb. (Suppl.) 33/3 (advt.) Afghans and Salukis, also Ibizans and Pharaohs (with whom we will be at Crufts). 1978 Times 7 Jan. 12/2 Bahrain's pure-bred saluki hound, which recently came close to extinction as a pedigree strain, is making a comeback. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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