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wire-haired

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wire-haired
Adjective
(of a dog) having a rough wiry coat
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Adj.1.wire-haired - (especially of dogs) having stiff wiry hair; "a wire-haired terrier"
wiry-coated
haired, hairy, hirsute - having or covered with hair; "Jacob was a hairy man"; "a hairy caterpillar"


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It was my own Snap--the little dark, wire-haired terrier
Agnes Grey by Bronte, Anne View in context
He felt his way in the darkness to the door of the outhouse, unlatched it, and entered softly, feeling with his hands for the wire-haired coat.
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Elliot had embarked upon of a wire-haired terrier, white with just one black spot, belonging to an uncle of hers, which had committed suicide.
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