Russian wolfhound
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of Russian wolfhound
First recorded in 1870–75
Example Sentences
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His wife, Kathleen, enjoyed breeding borzoi, a type of Russian wolfhound, and, between the two of them, they restored the estate to something like its former glory.
From The New Yorker • Aug. 5, 2018
He usually walked the streets of New York with a white Russian wolfhound.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 23, 2016
Its borzoi emblem — a sleek Russian wolfhound, in full stride — automatically seems to guarantee quality.
From Washington Post • Apr. 13, 2016
A visiting Russian wolfhound: My only memory of its visit is being trapped on the top of a sofa until my father woke and rescued me.
From Slate • Apr. 30, 2015
I know a gentlewoman whose sensitive, quivering, aristocratic nature is expressed far more in the Russian wolfhound that shrinks always beside her than in the aloof, though charming, expression of her face.
From The "Goldfish" by Train, Arthur Cheney
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