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
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
So I put aside the memory of the little pariah dog and the gosling.
From "Homeless Bird" by Gloria Whelan
A pariah dog would have slunk away in affright, but the Banjara's yellow eyes gleamed with fighting defiance; he rose on his powerful, straight legs, and his long fangs shone between curled lips.
From The Three Sapphires by Fraser, W. A.
Dog, anjing: those brought from Europe lose in a few years their distinctive qualities, and degenerate at length into the cur with erect ears, kuyu, vulgarly called the pariah dog.
From The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants by Marsden, William
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