pariah dog
Britishnoun
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India’s pariah dog, the dominant street breed, is probably a descendant of an early Chinese immigrant, said Peter Savolainen, a professor of evolutionary genetics at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.
From New York Times ● Aug. 7, 2012
So I put aside the memory of the little pariah dog and the gosling.
From "Homeless Bird" by Gloria Whelan
A pariah dog would slink into the courtyard from time to time in search of a morsel of food.
From "Homeless Bird" by Gloria Whelan
There is the tinkle of a cow-bell, the barking of a pariah dog, the monotonous dub-a-dub-dub of a timber-toned tom-tom, muffled and slightly mellowed by the distance.
From Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier Twelve Years Sporting Reminiscences of an Indigo Planter by James Inglis
Even when a favourite pariah dog, which used to feed with him, was shot for having fallen under suspicion of taking the lion's share of the meal, he appeared to be quite indifferent.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 446 Volume 18, New Series, July 17, 1852 by William Chambers
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