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English
Etymology
From thorough + breed.
Noun
thoroughbreed (plural thoroughbreeds)
- A breed of unadulterated or pure lineage.
1844, The Farmer's Magazine, page 321:No particular breed of cattle can be said to exist in this district: milk being the main object of the farmer, he does not consider any thoroughbreed particularly advantageous for that purpose; […]
1868, Annual Report of the Secretary - Volume 15, Part 1867, page 159:SIR:—I have, at this moment, received from Dr. Eben Wight, the account of the stock of cattle known, in this vicinity, as the Jamestown. It is a cross between two thoroughbreeds — the Suffolk (no horned) on the part of the female, and the Jersey on the part of the male.
1886, American Pomological Society, Proceedings, volume 20, page 96:It is only through the practice of the principles of evolution that a thorough-breed can be obtained. Every species is one of nature's thorough-breeds.
1899, Bulletin - Texas Agricultural Experiment Station:[…] that all the progeny would have large berries and large clusters, and thus far [form?] a purebreed or thoroughbreed, of the “in and in bred” type would be secured.
1903, The Southern Planter, volume 64, page 457:Ellerslie is the most noted of modern Virginia thoroughbreed breeding establishments, and Eon, who was bred there, is one of the grandest looking thoroughbred stallions ever stripped.
- Alternative form of thoroughbred
2013, Ian Talbot, Khizr Tiwana, the Punjab Unionist Party and the Partition of India:He also entered his own horses for the Lahore meetings, although the thoroughbreeds were sold off to trainers who competed in the more prestigious Bombay and Calcutta races.