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rough collie

noun

  1. a breed of long-haired collie with a coarse black-and-white or black, tan, and white coat, thicker around its neck and shoulders.



rough collie

noun

  1. a large long-haired collie having a distinctive ruff and a long narrow head without a pronounced stop

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Puyallup resident Marie Markovich’s love for collie dogs stemmed from the 1954 television show “Lassie,” which featured a rough collie named Lassie.

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An animal control officer took the 1-year-old spayed black rough collie mix, which was wearing a blue nylon collar, to the shelter.

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Rough collie Kirki - named after the Greek goddess of magic, Circe - lived to the ripe age of 17 and owner Harissa Kastrioti reckons olive oil had something to do with it.

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Sigurd's mother, Trapelo Dora, born May 16, 1900, was also a sable and white rough collie.

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Then he whistled thrice more and the echoes had hardly died away before the wise, towsy head of a rough collie with the big, brown eyes of the genuine Galloway sheep-dog peered out of the bracken and long grass of the burnside.

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