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- noun Plural form of
pure-bred .
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Examples
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Carol Bobrowsky of Mulberry Farm Cockapoos bred pure-breds dogs until she met her first Cockapoo, a Cocker Spaniel-Poodle mix.
When a Pug and a Beagle Fall in Love, It's a Puggle Miriam Gottfried 2011
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In a recent Science Times section under the single word headline "Really?" we're told that "[i] n 2004, researchers in San Diego found that subjects in a study were able to correctly match pictures of dog owners with their pets more often than not, but only when the dogs were pure-breds."
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September 22, 2008 at 9:03 am dem pure-breds iz kinda stuk-up
Are you listening to me? - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Tabby cats are genetically the healthiest, they are above-average intelligence, and when you get right down to it, there are no real “pure-breds” – breeds are simply tabbies that people liked enough to copy.
We didn’t do it!!! - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Quail Roost, that's where you'll see some of the "three titters and one eyed cows," pure-breds, that had come from my great-grandfather's farm in Baltimore, where he had a fine dairy herd.
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I had to be told that I was regarding the swallow-fork herd, pure-breds that for one reason or another -- the chief being careless help -- had not been registered.
Ma Pettengill Harry Leon Wilson 1903
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In the sight of heaven they were pure-breds; so why should they suffer through the oversight of a herd boss that hadn't anywhere near such distinguished ancestry?
Ma Pettengill Harry Leon Wilson 1903
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Hadn't I noticed how common cows got paunchy and how well the fat was distributed on the pure-breds?
Ma Pettengill Harry Leon Wilson 1903
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Apparently she'd heard of his preference for pure-breds.
Camy's Loft 2010
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As for people thinking they can make easy money out of breeding pure-breds, Brown said it's not that simple anyway. goingup writes:
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