French poodle
Americannoun
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If musical theater had a canine sentinel, it might well be a standard French poodle.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 18, 2024
A standard French poodle born near Paris, he belonged to an elegant, luxurious breed, though in previous centuries, poodles were used to retrieve game from water.
From Salon • Mar. 5, 2024
With all due respect to the dead monkey, Hector, a French poodle, gets pride of place here, for two reasons.
From Slate • Jan. 31, 2021
In 1960, John Steinbeck set out in a pickup truck with his French poodle, Charley, to reacquaint himself with a country from which he felt disconnected.
From The New Yorker • Dec. 19, 2014
Conspicuous in the foreground are several dogs belonging to the English turnspit breed, one of which views a yapping French poodle with the most unmitigated disdain.
From English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century. How they Illustrated and Interpreted their Times. by Everitt, Graham
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