ProbableNamed from the place
Thai Ridgeback
noun · first attested 20th century
A forward-growing stripe of hair links dogs in Thailand, Vietnam, and Africa.
A muscular short-coated dog from Thailand with a strip of hair growing forward along its spine.
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- Named from the place
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- ProbableThe conventional story is likely, with caveats.
- Attested
- 20th century
- Part of speech
- noun
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Thai Ridgeback
The dogs were kept in eastern Thailand as guards and hunters for centuries and were barely known abroad until the 1990s. The same reversed ridge appears in the Phu Quoc dog of Vietnam and the Rhodesian Ridgeback, and whether it arose separately or traveled by sea remains unsettled.
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