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Komondor

[ kom-uhn-dawr ]

noun

plural Komondors, Komondorok
  1. one of a Hungarian breed of large dogs having a long, matted, white coat, used for herding sheep and as a watchdog.


komondor

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noun

  1. a large powerful dog of an ancient Hungarian breed, originally used for sheep herding. It has a very long white coat that hangs in woolly or matted locks
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Origin of Komondor1

From Hungarian, dating back to 1930–35, allegedly after a Turkic tribal name
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It has great breeds like the Alaskan malamute, the great Dane, the delightfully-entitled Dogue de Bordeaux, and the Komondor, which is the one that looks like a giant ambulatory mop.

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Thus, we not only read about Hira, Towne’s famously hirsute, jumbo-sized, Hungarian Komondor, acquired as a guard dog in the wake of the Manson murders, but also Scylla, the Komondor that preceded him but was deemed insufficiently fierce.

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There was only one komondor entered, so she was an automatic winner.

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I particularly liked a Samoyed named Letty, who was enjoying a nap; a Hungarian Vizsla named Judit, who licked all over my face, and Barry, a komondor, who, if I am being honest, was obscured by so much heavy, ropelike, dreadlock-y hair that it was hard to get a sense of his personality, other than that he did not seem embarrassed to look like a giant industrial mop.

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This komondor isn’t even the front-runner.

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