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Pekingese

noun
1.
A Chinese breed of small short-legged dogs with a long silky coat and broad flat muzzle.  Synonyms: Peke, Pekinese.






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"Pekingese" Quotes from Famous Books



... was always the matter of that dog of hers. She had a dog, you know, a snappy brute of a Pekingese. If there was ever any shadow of disagreement between us, it had to do with that dog. I made rather a point of it that I would not have it about the home ...
— Three Men and a Maid • P. G. Wodehouse

... neither Cantonese nor Pekingese. His long, rather supercilious face, his aquiline nose, the flare of his nostrils, the back-tilted head, the high, narrow brow, and the shock of blue-black hair identified the Chinese stranger, even if his abnormal, rangy height ...
— Peter the Brazen - A Mystery Story of Modern China • George F. Worts

... a future before him in the Paterson Dyeing and Refining Company, of which my old friend, Alexander Paterson, was the president. He had many engaging qualities—among them an unquestioned ability to imitate a bulldog quarrelling with a Pekingese in a way which had to be heard to be believed. It was a gift which made him much in demand at social gatherings in the neighbourhood, marking him off from other young men who could only almost play the mandolin or recite bits of Gunga Din; and no doubt it was this talent of ...
— The Clicking of Cuthbert • P. G. Wodehouse

... solidly built little man with the face of a Pekingese. His partner, a tall man who looked as if he'd have been much more comfortable in a ten-gallon Stetson instead of the regulation blue cap, leaned out at Bill, ...
— The Impossibles • Gordon Randall Garrett



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