Shar-Pei

[ shahr-pey ]

/ ˈʃɑrˈpeɪ /

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noun

one of a Chinese breed of large muscular dogs having a distinctive wrinkly skin covered by a fawn to dark brown smooth coat, originally developed as a guard dog.

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Origin of Shar-Pei

First recorded in 1975–80; from dialectal Chinese, equivalent to Chinese shā pí literally, “sand fur” (compare Guangdong dialect sā péi ); English spelling with r perhaps r-less speaker's representation of the vowel

Words nearby Shar-Pei

sharpbill, sharp-cut, Sharpe, sharp-eared, sharp-edged, Shar-Pei, sharpen, sharper, Sharpe's grysbok, Sharpeville, sharp-eyed

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How to use Shar-Pei in a sentence

She has a glossy, light caramel coat and the adorable, wrinkly face that makes some think there could be some Shar-Pei in her mix.
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Some lip-synched to the chorus of a Russian song: “Pei, Pei, Pei Menia,” or “Drink, Drink, Drink Me.”
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The only capitalism China does better than the U.S., said noted scholar Minxin Pei, is “crony capitalism.”
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Pei said the two countries are acting “to defy the West together, so that neither might look isolated.”
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Tuition and board at the school, which includes a building designed by I.M. Pei, cost more than $45,000 per year.
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Britney Spears snatched Kevin Federline from a pregnant Shar Jackson and married him in September 2004.
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I stumbled ashore at Tongku, a station up a way on the banks of the Pei Ho river.
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And today Pei-tang and its cathedral stand finer and stronger than before, to the benefit of humanity and the glory of God.
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They wrote a missive and dispatched it with haste to the mountain Shar where Milosh-the-shepherd tarried with his flocks.
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We stopped that night at Ch-pei, a small town lying at an elevation of about six thousand feet.
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I positively sharn't dare to be left alone with you, Miss De Voe.
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British Dictionary definitions for Shar-Pei

Shar Pei

/ (ʃɑː ˈpeɪ) /

noun

a compact squarely-built dog of a Chinese breed, with loose wrinkled skin and a harsh bristly coat

Word Origin for Shar Pei

C20: from Chinese shā pí, literally: sand skin

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