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Specialty Expressions: ICELAND DOGS

ExpressionsDomainDefinition
Iceland DogsLiterature1: Shaggy white dogs, once great favourites with ladies. Shakespeare mentions them (Henry V., ii. 1).
2: "Use and custome bath intatained... Iceland dogges curled and rough all over, which, by reason of the length of their heire make showe neither of face nor of body." - Fleming: Of English Dogges (1576). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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