(noun.) an intelligent dog with a heavy curly solid-colored coat that is usually clipped; an old breed sometimes trained as sporting dogs or as performing dogs.

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• And purchase in his stead some sweetly pooty pug or poodle--something appropriate to the fair sex. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• It is, answered Poodle, that most lovely creature, Lady Fanny Ponsonby, whom we are all sighing and dying for. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• No, I don't, was Jo's decided answer, as she petted the fat poodle, whom she had adopted, out of respect to his former mistress. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• One of the ladies had a little poodle led by a string. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Mrs. Bute happened to be in ecstasies with the poodle, and was calling him a little darling, and a sweet little zoggy, and a pretty pet. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• You can't offer him the Presidency of the Council; that is reserved for Poodle. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• The belt was running so smoothly and evenly, the poodle did not notice the difference between it and the floor, and got into the belt before we could do anything. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.

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