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fox terrier ‎(plural fox terriers)

1. Either of two breeds of dog (the smooth fox terrier and the wire fox terrier) bred for fox hunting.
   • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 4, in The Celebrity:

     One morning I had been driven to the precarious refuge afforded by the steps of the inn, after rejecting offers from the Celebrity to join him in a variety of amusements. But even here I was not free from interruption, for he was seated on a horse-block below me, playing with a fox terrier.

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