- a variation of carline.
carlin
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of carlin
C18: named after a French actor who played Harlequin, because of the resemblance of the dog's face to the black mask of the Harlequin
Example Sentences
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The carlin must have been in a dream.
From The Childhood of King Erik Menved An Historical Romance by Bernhard Severin Ingemann
Ae spring brought off her master hale, whole But left behind her ain gray tail: The carlin caught her by the rump, clutched And left poor Maggie scarce a stump.
From Robert Burns How To Know Him by William Allan Neilson
The hideous carlin and her three giant sons is also a common form in Celtic.
From Celtic Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs
That auld capricious carlin, Nature, To mak amends for scrimpit stature, She’s turn’d you aff, a human creature On her first plan; And in her freaks, on every feature She’s wrote, the Man.
From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Robert Burns
But how got you on with the king and the carlin?
From The Childhood of King Erik Menved An Historical Romance by Bernhard Severin Ingemann
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