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Borzoi

//ˈbɔː.zɔɪ// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A dog of a particular breed, similar in shape to a greyhound but with longer silkier hair.

    "Pia loves Rob, she had written it with her lipstick on the walls of the vespasienne in the Rue Colombe, waiting for him to finish, holding her pampered borzoi on the leash."

  2. 2
    tall fast-moving dog breed wordnet

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian борзо́й (borzój), from бо́рзый (bórzyj, “swift”), from Proto-Indo-European *mréǵʰus (whence English brief, brace and merry).

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