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highbred

[ hahy-bred ]

adjective

  1. of superior breed.
  2. characteristic of superior breeding:

    highbred manners.



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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of highbred1

First recorded in 1665–75; high + bred
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“In polite company, you might want to compare a violin’s song to something more palatable. Like a highbred cat. Though you, my dear, play like a cat dying.â€

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In the park, my mutt played on equal turf with highbred wolfhounds and common pit bulls.

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They acquired some highbred mares and started breeding.

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He described 19th-century “path-makers,†highbred gentlemen who spent summers armchair-engineering intricate paths around Mount Desert Island’s barren 1,500-foot peaks, glacial lakes and ironbound shoreline.

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“It matches nothing and goes with everything,†added Veronica Miele Beard, her partner in the three-year-old fashion house that courts, evenhandedly, young Uptown matrons, turbo-powered corporate strivers and highbred urban gypsies.

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