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hound's tooth

1

noun

  1. a pattern of broken or jagged checks, used on a variety of fabrics.


hound's-tooth

2

[ houndz-tooth ]

adjective

  1. woven or printed with a pattern of broken or jagged checks:

    a hound's-tooth jacket.

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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of hound's tooth1

First recorded in 1935–40

Origin of hound's tooth2

First recorded in 1955–60
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Example Sentences

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To earn it the investigators must appear every day to be clean as a hound’s tooth.

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While waiting on approval to become a nonprofit organization, Parsons met Kat Carter, who is a certified dog trainer and owner of Hound’s Tooth Academy for Dogs in Lexington.

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President deeply disturbed at newspaper report of your golf score, insists that anyone connected with his administration be as clean as a hound's tooth.

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And since that time the game has been as clean as a hound’s tooth.

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He was a cattle magnate of the modern sort; a big, viking-looking man, with a Yale degree, and with a record as clean as a hound's tooth.

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