sloughis

The desert hare is shot or coursed with muzzled greyhounds, _sloughis_, who strike it down with their paws; unmuzzled, they rend it to pieces.

Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia Norman Douglas 1910

Slim grey sloughis and Kabyle dogs quarrelled with each other, among flocks of black and white goats; and at night, the sky pulsed with the fires of desert encampments, rosy as northern lights.

The Golden Silence 1901

Tall, lean hounds or sloughis, kept to chase the desert gazelles, wandered near the kitchens, in the hope of bones, and camels gobbled dismally as their tired drivers forced them to their knees, or thrust handfuls of date stones down their throats.

The Golden Silence 1901

Some, born and bred in an airy palace among pomegranate gardens and white terraces, pass thence to one of the feudal fortresses near the snows, where for half the year the great chiefs of the south live in their clan, among fighting men and falconers and packs of _sloughis_.

In Morocco Edith Wharton 1899