IRISH SETTER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Irish setter mean? 

• IRISH SETTER (noun)
  The noun IRISH SETTER has 1 sense:

1. an Irish breed with a chestnut-brown or mahogany-red coat

  Familiarity information: IRISH SETTER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IRISH SETTER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An Irish breed with a chestnut-brown or mahogany-red coat

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Irish setter; red setter

Hypernyms ("Irish setter" is a kind of...):

setter (a long-haired dog formerly trained to crouch on finding game but now to point)

 Context examples 

Skeet was a little Irish setter who early made friends with Buck, who, in a dying condition, was unable to resent her first advances.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)