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Shar-Pei, n.|ʃɑːˈpeɪ|
Also Shar Pei, Sharpei, and with lower-case initial.
[ad. Chin. shā pí, lit. ‘sand fur’.]
A breed of compact, squarely built dogs of Chinese origin, with a characteristic loose, deeply wrinkled skin and a short, bristly coat of a cream, fawn, red, or black colour; a dog of this breed.
1976Dog Fancy Oct. 19 (title) The Chinese Shar-Pei. Ibid. 19/3 The Shar-Pei is an amiable animal unless he is deliberately baited and provoked. 1978E.T. Linn in D. Myrus Dog Catalog 78/2 There are some shar-peis who retain their many wrinkles into adulthood. 1987Women's Wear Daily 25 Sept. 16/4 Claude Montana, who..brought his dog,..a Sharpei, there to summer as well. 1989Newsday 23 May iii. 11/3 Freud and Darwin are the best exemplars of the value of holding on to an idea with the concentrated tenacity of a Shar Pei gripping a bone. 1993Daily Tel. 20 Jan. 13 Anne Quayle speaks out about the dangerous side of Shar Pei dogs. |