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mastiff

mastiff (plural mastiffs)

1. One of several large breeds of dog (such as bulldogs and Saint Bernards), often used as guard dogs
   • 1605: William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act III, Scene VI

     Avaunt, you curs! Be thy mouth or black or white, Tooth that poisons if it bite; Mastiff, greyhound, mongrel grim, Hound or spaniel, brach or him.

   • 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacobs Room, Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 98

     A mastiff lay extended against a battered door.

Definizione dizionario mastiff

	mastino
	mastiff
	One of several large breeds of dog (such as bulldogs and Saint Bernards), often used as guard dogs

mastiff