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broodmare

American  
[brood-mair] / ˈbrudˌmɛər /

noun

  1. a mare used for breeding.


Etymology

Origin of broodmare

First recorded in 1875–80; brood + mare 1

Example Sentences

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Zenyatta’s success on the track has not yet translated into success as a broodmare.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 31, 2023

VERSAILLES, Ky. — Zenyatta, the 2010 Horse of the Year, has delivered her last foal with her broodmare career ending.

From Washington Times • Jun. 12, 2023

The princess recalled being told some years ago that the queen even had an iPad to enable her to watch her future racehorses being born in the broodmare stables.

From Reuters • Sep. 16, 2022

In her new book on the monarchy, “The Palace Papers,” former New Yorker editor Tina Brown dishes that the queen’s wedding gift to her son Charles, when he married Camilla Parker Bowles, was a broodmare.

From Washington Post • Jun. 3, 2022

One or two persons are this very year going to Europe for the sole purpose of importing horses of high reputation: a larger sort of broodmare would, I think, be of more service to them.

From Impressions of America During The Years 1833, 1834, and 1835. In Two Volumes, Volume II. by Power, Tyrone