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- adjective covered with curly hair
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Examples
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Frank Jenkins of Vista Estate Imaging Mr. Alben shares the home with his wife and two teenage children, as well as a curly-coated retriever and three cats.
Seattle Spread 2010
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Frank Jenkins of Vista Estate Imaging Mr. Alben shares the home with his wife and two teenage children, as well as a curly-coated retriever and three cats.
Seattle Spread 2010
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Meanwhile, his curly-coated white dog remained with him almost continuously.
The Pawprints of History STANLEY COREN 2002
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Meanwhile, his curly-coated white dog remained with him almost continuously.
The Pawprints of History STANLEY COREN 2002
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Meanwhile, his curly-coated white dog remained with him almost continuously.
The Pawprints of History STANLEY COREN 2002
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Meanwhile, his curly-coated white dog remained with him almost continuously.
The Pawprints of History STANLEY COREN 2002
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And, to the present writer's mind, a black curly-coated retriever recalls himself as a poacher of extreme ability.
Stories of the Border Marches Jeanie Lang
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The accompanying dog was a very sympathetic, blunt-nosed, round-headed, curly-coated type, whose whiteness, which positively invited the stroking hand, was broken by two great black blotches set all askew on the back, and by a black patch which ringed the left eye and completely smothered the cocked-up left ear.
In the Wilderness Robert Smythe Hichens 1907
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Immediately after the two shots, out from the shelter of the rushes had sprung a large, curly-coated, brown retriever.
The Watchers of the Trails A Book of Animal Life Charles George Douglas Roberts 1901
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I have worked seven years with a curly-coated retriever bitch, and when ferreting a brook she would stand in the water and catch the Rats that escaped from the nets into the brook and bring them to me alive in her mouth.
Full Revelations of a Professional Rat-catcher Matthews, Ike 1898
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