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Skye terrier
noun
- one of a Scottish breed of small terriers having short legs and a dark or light blue-gray, gray, or fawn coat.
Skye terrier
noun
- a short-legged long-bodied breed of terrier with long wiry hair and erect ears
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Skye terrier1
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Example Sentences
For the past 140 years, a noble-looking, bronze Skye terrier has stood guard outside the grounds and watched over the kirkyard.
Her black, silky hair, as fine as a Skye terrier's, curled around a comely head.
The most sensitive of four-footed creatures in the world, the Skye terrier is utterly abased by a rebuke from his master.
Tangle was but a little mongrel Skye terrier, but he had a big heart in his little body, and played a hero's part more than once.
Two important members of the Barnes family were a large yellow cat and a small, tangle-haired, blue-gray mop of a Skye terrier.
They have a regular breed for the purpose, about the size of a large Skye terrier, and of a sandy colour.
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