Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Any of an ancient French breed of sturdily built, rough-coated dogs.
Wiktionary
- n. An ancient French breed of sturdy, rough-coated dogs.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. an old French breed of large strong usually black dogs having a long tail and long wavy and slightly stiff coat.
WordNet 3.0
- n. old French breed of large strong usually black dogs having a long tail and long wavy and slightly stiff coat
Etymologies
- French briard (Wiktionary)
- French, from Brie, a region of northern France. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“More Briard puppy updates at thecoughlin, under her briard puppies tag.”
“Boling lounged back in a deep armchair, joined by Raye the briard.”
“Delighting Wes and Maggie, they also brought with them a long-haired tawny puppy, a briard named Raye.”
“Tell No One" - Give me a white-knuckle chase and a briard with a key role in a thriller any time.”
“You not only get a dog, you get one who is typically “dignified, lordly, scowling, sober and snobbish” (shar-pei); “merry and affectionate” (English cocker spaniel); “reserved and discerning with strangers” (chow chow); with a “rollicking personality” (Irish setter); full of “self-importance” (Pekingese); having “heedless, reckless pluck” (Irish terrier); “equable” (Bouvier des Flandres); or, most surprisingly, “a dog at heart” (briard).”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘briard’.
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dogs and their relatives
dog dogs and more dogs anything
I can think of ,canids and their
relatives
my favourite African wild dog
all have 42 teethaffenpinscher, akita, alan, aland, alant, alopecoid, apso, bandog, barbet, basenji, basset, bawtie and 355 more...
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Dog Breeds according to Simon & Schus...
yugoslavian trico..., yugoslavian mount..., yorkshire terrier, xoloitzcuintle, whippet, wetterhoun, westphalian basset, west highland whi..., welsh terrier, welsh springer sp..., welsh corgi, weimaraner and 121 more...
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Useful Words
Words that I both like and feel could have use in writing.
confabulate, Albion, lugubrious, placability, aberration, acquiesce, ambiguous, succint, phototoxic, alacrity, indolent, perfunctory and 56 more...
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qreen-tailed
in the Century Dictionary definition of 'menhaden' there is a misprint - I speculate- o 'qreen-tailed'for green-tailed. BUT there are alot of odd-tails out there..............
uropygium, hypural, nudicaudate, plesiosaur, macrural, curvicaudate, homocercal, jabiru, xeme, sirenian, dugong, saururaceae and 56 more...
Tweets
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chained_bear Dog breed popularized after the Paris dog show of 1863, though Charlemagne is said to have owned several (?!). According to Simon & Schuster's Guide to Dogs, 1980.
Also, just a damn fine word. Feb 21, 2007