Definition of "saluki" []

• Any of an ancient breed of tall slender dog developed in Arabia and Egypt and having a smooth, silky, variously colored coat. (noun)

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• "The saluki is the ONLY AKC breed with a mechanism for bringing in new "blood" and even that is cumbersome, partially because of Arabist romanticism and the myth of the "pure" hurr Bedu, saluki, Arab horse, and saker."
• "I awake to the sound of wild saluki dogs barking at the dawn."
• "Breed people buy in to all sorts of mysticism about it show saluki people with their pure Arab breed myths are among the worst-- see below and make up absurd creation myths."