a large breed of dog with a dense red-and-white coat, formerly used as a rescue dog in mountainous areas
Word origin
C19: so called because they were kept by the monks of the hospice at the Great Saint Bernard Pass
Saint Bernard in American English
(bərˈnɑrd)
any of a breed of very large, reddish-brown and white dog once kept by the monks of the hospice of the Great St. Bernard Pass in the Swiss Alps, and trained to rescue travelers lost in the snow: now kept as a companion dog