/ · 1894 Brewer’s · D · Dandie Dinmont
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A jovial, true-hearted store-farmer, in Sir Walter Scott’s Guy Mannering. Also a hardy hairy short-legged terrier.
“From this dog descended Davidson of Hyndlee’s breed, the original Dandie-Dinmont.”—T. Brown: Our Dogs, p. 104.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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