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n. A large dog bred in Northern France for herding and guarding.
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The Beauceron is a guard dog and herding dog breed falling into the working dog category whose origins lie in the plains of Northern France. The Beauceron is also known as (sheepdog from Beauce) or (red-stockings).
Usage examples of "beauceron".
It was a Beauceron mare, old and thin, and one fit for the knacker, which was dragging a very heavy cart.
I was made to be a Turk, watching oriental houris all day long, executing those exquisite Egyptian dances, as sensuous as the dream of a chaste man, or a Beauceron peasant, or a Venetian gentleman surrounded by gentlewoman, or a petty German prince, furnishing the half of a foot-soldier to the Germanic confederation, and occupying his leisure with drying his breeches on his hedge, that is to say, his frontier.