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Purebred

noun

A pedigreed animal of unmixed lineage; used especially of horses. Synonyms: pureblood, thoroughbred.

adjective

Bred for many generations from member of a recognized breed or strain.

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"Purebred" Quotes from Famous Books

... fashion, which drew from her flashing replies. Looking at her, he was conscious of the mingled qualities of three races in her—English, Welsh, and American-Dutch of the Knickerbocker strain; and he contrasted her keen perception and her exquisite sensitiveness with the purebred Englishwomen round him, stately, ...

— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker

... quality which may perhaps be racially simple; but which is, at any rate, very plain. Chamberlain, the German philosopher or historian (I know not which to call him or how to call him either) remarks somewhere that purebred races possess fidelity; he instances the negro and the dog—and, I suppose, the German. Anyhow, it is true that there is a recognisable and real thing which might be called fidelity (or perhaps monotony) which exists ...

— The Appetite of Tyranny - Including Letters to an Old Garibaldian • G.K. Chesterton