spaniel

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   any of several breeds of small to medium-sized gun dogs with a long silky coat and long frilled ears

   The spaniel flushed the birds from the long grass.

From Middle English spaynol, from Old French espaigneul (modern French épagneul), from Old Occitan espaignol, from Vulgar Latin *Hispāniolus (“Spanish”), from Hispānia (“Spain”).

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