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Aberdeen terrier

British  

noun

  1. a former name for Scottish terrier

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They were in answer to a Highland friend, who enquired through the medium of a well-known journal, if he knew the Aberdeen terrier.

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At her feet sat Madge, her pupil, and an Aberdeen terrier.

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The Rossoneri's Aberdeen terrier lookalike is 33.

From The Guardian

Finally we decided on an Aberdeen terrier, of an age and sex to be settled by circumstances, and I was instructed to communicate with a gentleman in the North who advertised in our morning paper that Aberdeen terriers were his specialty.

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I first became aware of it about the same time the Dachshund at the corner house began to declare he was an Aberdeen Terrier.

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