flat-coated retriever

[ flat-koh-tid ]

/ ˈflætˌkoʊ tɪd /

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noun

one of an English breed of large sporting dogs having a flat, dense, shiny black or liver-colored coat, small ears, and long jaws, used for retrieving game from both water and land.

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Origin of flat-coated retriever

First recorded in 1945–50

Words nearby flat-coated retriever

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How to use flat-coated retriever in a sentence

Luckily enough I have this dedicated flat that is just along from my house that I go to every day.
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There were stomachs, taut and flat, but also undulating bellies, soft and bloated from the breakfast buffet.
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Other versions are coated in marzipan, or dusted in powder sugar.
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The program—weirdly—is now under the umbrella of ABC News, and is suffering from flat ratings and an aging demographic.
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Birds eat their berries, which are coated in gluey material called viscin.
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Why not have sought out the pure white lime-rocks of the flat country, or the grey granite of the hills?
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846|Various
Then the roof itself, with its gables and dormer windows, softly folded itself flat down upon the top of the house, out of sight.
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Instead of writing slander and flat blasphemy, they propose to draw it, and not draw it mild.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV.|Various
There is no other way but fresh blood for it is sheer human nature to feel flat after an effort.
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The hills disappear some miles above this city, and henceforward to the sea all is flat and tame as a marsh.
Glances at Europe|Horace Greeley

British Dictionary definitions for flat-coated retriever

flat-coated retriever

noun

a medium-sized variety of retriever having a dense flat black or liver-coloured coat with feathered legs and tail

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