a breed of horned sheep with dense fine-textured wool
Dorset Horn in American English
noun
one of an English breed of sheep having a close-textured, medium-length wool
Word origin
[1890–95; after dorset]This word is first recorded in the period 1890–95. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: blanket roll, cholesterol, historicism, honky-tonk, phoneme