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  • adjective used of hair; thick and poorly groomed

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Examples

  • They rode enormous horses, shaggy-coated and unkempt to Roman eyes, with big hooves skirted in long hair, and manes falling over their mild eyes; none was encumbered by a saddle, but all were bridled.

    The First Man in Rome McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1990

  • He had been sixteen by then, and it was in any case not the Way of the Sasenna to mourn even the passing of one's parents, let alone a shaggy-coated shepherd bitch with one blue eye.

    The Silicon Mage Hambly, Barbara 1988

  • There was life-no flitter in the skies, but rather there came at a steady pace wagons with covered tops and huge earth-crushing wheels pulled by teams of shaggy-coated four-legged animals that plodded steadily onward at a ground-eating pace.

    Flight in Yiktor Norton, Andre 1986

  • The white board fences looked out of place in the winter-drab landscape, and the horses grazing beyond them were shaggy-coated and dull.

    The Glory Game Janet Dailey 1985

  • The white board fences looked out of place in the winter-drab landscape, and the horses grazing beyond them were shaggy-coated and dull.

    The Glory Game Janet Dailey 1985

  • The white board fences looked out of place in the winter-drab landscape, and the horses grazing beyond them were shaggy-coated and dull.

    The Glory Game Janet Dailey 1985

  • Her fingers unconsciously retained their clasp on the reins as the shaggy-coated roan impatiently reversed the rest of the way out of the stall and walked as far as the long reins would allow.

    Leftover Love Janet Daily 1984

  • The shaggy-coated sorrel blew out a nervous snort at the slick footing as it moved gingerly across the frozen lake, its pricked ears in a constant flux of direction at the ominous cracking sounds beneath its hooves.

    Leftover Love Janet Daily 1984

  • Her fingers unconsciously retained their clasp on the reins as the shaggy-coated roan impatiently reversed the rest of the way out of the stall and walked as far as the long reins would allow.

    Leftover Love Janet Daily 1984

  • The shaggy-coated sorrel blew out a nervous snort at the slick footing as it moved gingerly across the frozen lake, its pricked ears in a constant flux of direction at the ominous cracking sounds beneath its hooves.

    Leftover Love Janet Daily 1984

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