Definitions
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- n. Plural form of thoroughbred.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The international quality of the thoroughbreds is better.
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SIR GERALD CAMPRELL: Your Honour, Mr. President, Distinguished Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen: If any of you are especially interested in thoroughbreds you had better let me out or go, away yourselves because I have got to confess I am a mongrel.
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If the same rules, or lack of rules, applied to the mating of horses as applied to ourselves, there would be few, if any, "thoroughbreds" among them.
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"After what's just happened," he added, "I'm almost ashamed to mention it, but -- but ain't this friend of yours one of them chaps they call 'thoroughbreds' in novels?"
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This gentleman sent the horse to his brother at Aldby Park in Yorkshire, and what are now known as "thoroughbreds" have descended from him.
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'thoroughbreds' feel to have been cantering along for quite a while already.
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Because these animals tended not to be thoroughbreds, cock-tailed came to denote horses of mixed pedigree.
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The painting shows a group of noble thoroughbreds in a quiet landscape, suggesting a well tended and orderly universe.
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He founded his stables in 1992, calling them Godolphin, after one of the three Middle Eastern stallions from which all modern thoroughbreds are said to be descended.
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What Michael did know was that Del Mar had no pedigree and was a scrub as compared with thoroughbreds such as Steward, Captain Kellar, and MISTER Haggin of Meringe.
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