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Afghan hound

British  

noun

  1. a tall graceful breed of hound with a long silky coat

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Gladstone said Rothschild was in his late 70s and devoted to his dog, an Afghan hound.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 28, 2024

Models sat inside houses, removed bags of groceries from the back of a station wagon, and walked a perfectly coiffed Afghan hound.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 15, 2022

The first dog clone was created in 2005—an Afghan hound named Snuppy in South Korea.

From National Geographic • Feb. 28, 2018

According to the newspaper, several other dogs including a West Highland white terrier, an Afghan hound and a Shih Tzu were also sick after the show at Birmingham's NEC.

From BBC • Mar. 10, 2015

In July, the day after my all-boys-are-dicks conversation with Dad, there was a long-haired Afghan hound who’d been found in the park, covered in dried mud/feces/who-knows-what.

From "Please Ignore Vera Dietz" by A.S. King