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| Grammar : Adj, noun |
| Spell : ped-i-gree |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈpɛd ɪˌgri |
Definition of pedigree
Origin :- early 15c., "genealogical table or chart," from Anglo-French pe de gru, a variant of Old French pied de gru "foot of a crane," from Latin pedem accusative of pes "foot" (see foot (n.)) + gruem (nominative grus) "crane," cognate with Greek geranos, Old English cran; see crane (n.)).
- On old manuscripts, "descent" was indicated by a forked sign resembling the branching lines of a genealogical chart; the sign also happened to look like a bird's footprint. Form influenced in Middle English by association with degree. Meaning "ancestral line" is mid-15c.; of animals, c.1600. Related: Pedigreed.
- adj purebred
- noun ancestry, heritage
- I remember such a one in Picardy, with a name as long as a Gascon's pedigree.
- Extract from : « The White Company » by Arthur Conan Doyle
- Otherwise why the pedigree, why the rigid castes, the isolation of women?
- Extract from : « City of Endless Night » by Milo Hastings
- They boast of their master's pedigree and descent, as if they were related to him.
- Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 3 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson
- On his father's side a pedigree of three generations can be traced.
- Extract from : « Concerning Cats » by Helen M. Winslow
- He had too profound a respect for his own pedigree to lay his sins at his great-grandfather's door.
- Extract from : « Audrey Craven » by May Sinclair
- Why, not even so much, for there IS a Herschell in my pedigree.
- Extract from : « The Market-Place » by Harold Frederic
- Shouldn't wonder if there'd been some class and pedigree to him sometime.'
- Extract from : « Mixed Faces » by Roy Norton
- If pedigree would do it, O'Shea may call himself first favorite!
- Extract from : « One Of Them » by Charles James Lever
- "Perhaps I can shorten the pedigree," said Haggerstone, tartly.
- Extract from : « The Daltons, Volume I (of II) » by Charles James Lever
- Graves (James) on pedigree of Richard earl of Chepstow, 126.
- Extract from : « Notes and Queries, Index of Volume 5, January-June, 1852 » by Various
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