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Spitz

noun

Any of various stocky heavy-coated breeds of dogs native to northern regions having pointed muzzles and erect ears with a curled furry tail.

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"Spitz" Quotes from Famous Books

... shocks of yellow hair. A dog was often of the party. He ate fish like his masters, and was made to beg for it by sitting up and rowing with his paws. Voga, Azzo, voga! The Anzolo who talked thus to his little brown Spitz-dog has the hoarse voice of a Triton and the movement of an animated sea-wave. Azzo performed his trick, swallowed his fish-bones, and the fiery Anzolo ...

— New Italian sketches • John Addington Symonds

Words linked to "Spitz" : chow, dog, domestic dog, chow chow, Canis familiaris, Samoyed, Samoyede, Pomeranian, keeshond