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Saint Bernard

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Saint Ber·nard  (br-närd)
n.
Any of a breed of large strong dog developed in Switzerland, having a thick brown and white coat, originally used by monks of the hospice of Saint Bernard in the Swiss Alps to help patrol the snow-covered region.
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Saint Bernard
Saint Bernard
Noun
a very large dog with a dense red-and-white coat, formerly used as a mountain-rescue dog
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Noun1.Saint BernardSaint Bernard - a Swiss alpine breed of large powerful dog with a thick coat of hair used as a rescue dog
St Bernard
working dog - any of several breeds of usually large powerful dogs bred to work as draft animals and guard and guide dogs
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The host, a slender, bright-eyed, dark young man of polite manners, whose garment was a black gown with strips of white crossed over it like braces, and who no more resembled the conventional breed of Saint Bernard monks than he resembled the conventional breed of Saint Bernard dogs, replied, doubtless those were the three in question.
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