pedigree

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The history or provenance of an idea, custom etc.

   This connection between sexual and spiritual impurity had an immense pedigree.

2. 2
   adj

   having a list of ancestors as proof of being a purebred animal

3. 3
   noun

   ancestry of a purebred animal

4. 4
   noun

   line of descent of a purebred animal

From Anglo-Norman pé de grue, a variant of Old French pié de gru (“foot of a crane”), from Latin pes (“foot”) + grus (“crane”).

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