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- noun Plural form of
thoroughbred .
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Examples
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The international quality of the thoroughbreds is better.
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SIR GERALD CAMPRELL: Your Honour, Mr. President, Distinguished Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen: If any of you are especially interested in thoroughbreds you had better let me out or go, away yourselves because I have got to confess I am a mongrel.
Masters of Our Fate 1937
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"After what's just happened," he added, "I'm almost ashamed to mention it, but -- but ain't this friend of yours one of them chaps they call 'thoroughbreds' in novels?"
Then I'll Come Back to You Larry Evans
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This gentleman sent the horse to his brother at Aldby Park in Yorkshire, and what are now known as "thoroughbreds" have descended from him.
From John O'Groats to Land's End Robert Naylor
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If the same rules, or lack of rules, applied to the mating of horses as applied to ourselves, there would be few, if any, "thoroughbreds" among them.
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'thoroughbreds' feel to have been cantering along for quite a while already.
icHuddersfield 2010
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Because these animals tended not to be thoroughbreds, cock-tailed came to denote horses of mixed pedigree.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Because these animals tended not to be thoroughbreds, cock-tailed came to denote horses of mixed pedigree.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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The painting shows a group of noble thoroughbreds in a quiet landscape, suggesting a well tended and orderly universe.
Browser's Delight Henrik Bering 2011
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He founded his stables in 1992, calling them Godolphin, after one of the three Middle Eastern stallions from which all modern thoroughbreds are said to be descended.
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