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English
coach dog, coach-dog
Etymology
From coach + dog.
Noun
coachdog (plural coachdogs)
- (historical) A dog trained to accompany carriages.
1881 February, Felix Leopold Oswald, “Physical Education”, in Popular Science Monthly:Dog No. 1 was then confined in a comfortable kennel, while No. 2 had to run after the doctor's coach, not at a breathless rate of speed, but at a fair, brisk trot, for two hours and a half. As soon as they got home, the coach-dog and his comrade were slain and dissected: the kennel-dog had completely digested his meal, while the chips and cubes in the coach-dog's stomach had not changed their form at all; the process of assimilation had not even begun!
- (dated) The Dalmatian (often used as a coach dog).
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