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Weimaraner

dog breed, 1943, from Weimar, german city, + German suffix -aner indicating "of this place." Originally bred as a hunting dog in the Weimar region.

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Weimaraner

The Weimaraner is a large dog that was originally bred for hunting in the early 19th century. Early Weimaraners were used by royalty for hunting large game such as boar, bear, and deer. As the popularity of large game hunting began to decline, Weimaraners were used for hunting smaller animals like fowl, rabbits, and foxes.

The Weimaraner is an all-purpose gun dog. The name comes from the Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Karl August, whose court, based in the city of Weimar (now in the state of Thuringia in modern-day Germany), enjoyed hunting.

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There are six apartments on each floor, and as I placed the key in the lock, 20E opened up down the hallway and a large weimaraner came loping at us with her tongue hanging out of the side of her mouth.

The station wagon rocked dangerously as seventy-five pounds of passionate Weimaraner lumbered into the back seat.

He kept a wary eye on the Weimaraner bitch, who was watching them with her hackles up.

He would look like his Weimaraner dam, while all the others took after their Rottweiler sire.

A young weimaraner, its stump tail wagging madly, sniffs garbage cans placed at a curb.

Baroness is currently the most easily identifiable Weimaraner in the country.

Hubert and Maury, and at the very least I can show you what a fat old champion Weimaraner looks like.

It had been built for a middle-sized dog, like a collie or setter or, yes, a Weimaraner, and I had to lay in a fetal position to fit, but that was the least of my problems.

Brought up in the United States, she is now living in Ireland with her Maine Coon cats and a silver Weimaraner and declines to travel anymore.

Luckily, she had never been attacked, although a mean Weimaraner had once followed her right to the church door.

When I looked, one of the Trolls waved: Weimaraner eyes a startling glint above a Durante nose, the whole shrouded in a bush of platinum blond hair.

The Weimaraner stuck its ugly snout into the interior where Vesper was sitting beside Leonforte.

For a moment, she felt frightened, out of control, as if, like the Weimaraner outside, something inside her had slipped its leash.

Wood among sheet-music, new recipes, a small kennel of Weimaraners whose racial purity she will go to extravagant lengths to preserve, and husband Clive who shows up now and then, Scorpia living only a few minutes away by Underground but lost to Pirate now for good, no chance for either of them to turn again .

A couple of dingy weimaraners stop to look up at me with mournful eyes.