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  • adjective having coarse hair or fur

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Examples

  • Hairless dogs have imperfect teeth; long-haired and coarse-haired animals are apt to have, as is asserted, long or many horns; pigeons with feathered feet have skin between their outer toes; pigeons with short beaks have small feet, and those with long beaks large feet.

    About 'What Darwin Got Wrong' 2010

  • I lean over the fence and give the coarse-haired creature a rub under the ears.

    A Day at Queens County Farm Museum 2009

  • Think first of an ordinary common cur — I mean one of the horrible, coarse-haired, low-bred curs that do nothing but run about the streets and befoul the walls of the houses.

    An Enemy of the People 2008

  • But these were “Júdi” fine-haired animals as opposed to “Khawár” (the Khowás of Chesney, p. 333), coarse-haired, heavy, slow brutes which will not stand great heat.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Think first of an ordinary common cur — I mean one of the horrible, coarse-haired, low-bred curs that do nothing but run about the streets and befoul the walls of the houses.

    An Enemy of the People 2008

  • First, the hand itself was covered in what I initially thought to be a coarse-haired glove, until my powers of observation persuaded me otherwise.

    vignette: m. p________ Dean Francis Alfar 2004

  • First, the hand itself was covered in what I initially thought to be a coarse-haired glove, until my powers of observation persuaded me otherwise.

    Archive 2004-09-01 Dean Francis Alfar 2004

  • As the Fade's head fell to roll across the floor, the remaining Trollocs fell, too, shrieking, kicking, tearing at their heads with coarse-haired hands.

    The Shadow Rising Jordan, Robert, 1948- 1992

  • A thick thatch covers it like a coarse-haired hide.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 45, July, 1861 Various

  • Faded, coarse-haired, coarse-skinned ... is all said?

    Browning's Heroines Ethel Colburn Mayne

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