Well attestedFrom the people of the place
German shepherd
noun · first attested early 20th century
Britain called it the Alsatian for nearly sixty years to avoid the word German.
A large working dog breed standardized in Germany from regional herding dogs.
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- early 20th century
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- noun
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German shepherd
Max von Stephanitz fixed the breed from Württemberg and Thuringian herding stock beginning in 1899. Anti-German feeling after the First World War pushed British registries to rename it the Alsatian wolf dog, after Alsace, and American ones to drop the word too; the United Kingdom only restored the original name in 1977.
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