| Webster's Online Dictionary |
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Iceland Dogs | Literature | 1: 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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