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  • noun A Dominique (breed of chicken).

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Examples

  • A "cluck-cluck" caused him to look aloft and there, on a beam, sat ten or twelve contented "dominicker" hens.

    Watch Yourself Go By Ben W. [Illustrator] Warden

  • He told of one particular cock, a big dominicker that lived for nothing but to fight and tread hens.

    Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 2003

  • Of epic struggles, spectacular victories in which the dominicker, looking to be facing certain defeat, would fly into the rafters of the barn the fight was held in and roost there until all the spectators jeered.

    Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 2003

  • Junior told also of how the women flung themselves at him in his travels with about the vigor of the dominicker falling on his foe.

    Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 2003

  • Junior told also of how the women flung themselves at him in his travels with about the vigor of the dominicker falling on his foe.

    Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 1997

  • He told of one particular cock, a big dominicker that lived for nothing but to fight and tread hens.

    Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 1997

  • Of epic struggles, spectacular victories in which the dominicker, looking to be facing certain defeat, would fly into the rafters of the barn the fight was held in and roost there until all the spectators jeered.

    Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 1997

  • Jack had captured some old cast-off clothes, some garden greens and an old dominicker rooster.

    History of Kershaw's Brigade D. Augustus Dickert

  • Crandall appeared with the picked dominicker, and sat rigidly before his guest.

    Mountain Blood A Novel Joseph Hergesheimer 1917

  • I ain't a worryin ''bout but one thing an' that is that a ol 'dominicker hen air took ter settin' on the flo 'er our coach an' I'm kinder hatin 'ter' sturb her when she feels so nice an 'homelike.

    The Comings of Cousin Ann Emma Speed Sampson 1907

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