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Poltalloch|pɒlˈtæləx|
The name of an estate in Argyll, Scotland, used absol. or attrib. to designate a small, stocky, rough-coated, white terrier belonging to a breed developed there by the Malcolm family, esp. Colonel E. D. Malcolm (1837–1930), and now usually called the West Highland White terrier.
1887D. J. Thomson Gray Dogs of Scotland (1891) iii. 51 A white variety of the Scottish terrier existed at one time (and stray specimens may still exist) under the cognomen of Poltalloch terriers. 1920R. Macaulay Potterism ii. i. 63 ‘We have two Pekingese, a King Charles, and a pug...’ I answered with some inanity about my mother's Poltalloch. 1922[see Highland a. 2 a]. 1932E. Weekley Words & Names ix. 129 We have the new class-names which come into existence, as new breeds of terriers are evolved to suit changing fashions, e.g...the poltalloch, first bred by Colonel Malcolm, of Poltalloch (Argyll). 1950A. C. Smith Dogs since 1900 xi. 187 West Highland White Terriers..were at first known as Poltalloch Terriers. 1968C. G. E. Wimhurst Bk. Terriers xxvii. 189 These [sc. the Duke of Argyll's terriers] were not related to the Poltalloch terriers. |