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blue poodle

English translation: the darkest of the greys often with a blue cast

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English term or phrase:blue poodle
Selected answer:the darkest of the greys often with a blue cast
Entered by: jerrie

10:18 May 25, 2003
English language (monolingual) [Non-PRO]
Art/Literary
English term or phrase: blue poodle
Mitsy, Mrs. Blooting’s large blue poodle, lay on the floor, sleeping.
Does “blue poodle” mean the poodle with blue color? Or does it has different meaning?
buttercup
the darkest of the greys often with a blue cast
Explanation:
Check out poodles.online. for everything you need to know about poodles, but were afraid to ask!

It is definitely a breed of poodle! (A real one!)
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jerrie
United Kingdom
Local time: 17:15
Grading comment
Thank you very much. The recommended website is great.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



SUMMARY OF ALL EXPLANATIONS PROVIDED
5 +8A poodle that is blue in colour.
Edith Kelly
4 +5the darkest of the greys often with a blue cast
jerrie
5 +2Locus B is BB or Bb, locus D is dd.
Sven Petersson


  

Answers


4 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +8
A poodle that is blue in colour.


Explanation:
Usually these toy poodles, they come in apricot and blue and sliver.

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Note added at 2003-05-25 10:35:30 (GMT)
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It\'s probably one of these big poodles (king-size poodles) that is basically greyish-black with white hair in-between, so that the fur has a blueish tinge.

Edith Kelly
Switzerland
Local time: 18:15
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman, Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in pair: 278

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Rowan Morrell
41 mins
  -> Thanks Rowan.
agree  DGK T-I: agree probably technical name for colour of that breed,not literally blue - funny how specialist names of domestic animal colours are chosen to be confusing eg: 'grey' horses are often white, etc.- unless this is a cont.of"magical"theme ¬ a normal dog!
1 hr
  -> Thanks, but I've never heard of the blue poodle species, though some of the greyish do look blue indeed.
agree  J. Leo (X)
1 hr
  -> Thanks cauljim
agree  Marie Scarano
1 hr
  -> Thanks Marie
agree  David Moore (X): Just as Edith says, it is the colour. But the breed is a "Standard poodle" (the large one, that is). Miniature and Toy are the smaller breeds, and the standards all call for solid colours. See http://www.napoleon.org.uk/breed/toypoodle.htm
2 hrs
  -> Thanks, I know nothing about poodles except that some neighbours have such a big poodle fellow, and he just has blueish-looking fur.
agree  Ino66 (X)
2 hrs
  -> Thanks Ino.
agree  A.Đapo
5 hrs
  -> Thanks.
agree  Sarah Ponting: Probably, although sometimes little old ladies tint their poodle's fur pink or pale blue (perhaps to match their own rinsed hair)
20 hrs
  -> Thanks Sarah, that also occured to me, the blue hair rinse.
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +5
the darkest of the greys often with a blue cast


Explanation:
Check out poodles.online. for everything you need to know about poodles, but were afraid to ask!

It is definitely a breed of poodle! (A real one!)


    Reference: http://www.poodlesonline.com/blue/
jerrie
United Kingdom
Local time: 17:15
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in pair: 773
Grading comment
Thank you very much. The recommended website is great.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Ino66 (X)
38 mins
agree  DGK T-I: it definitely qualifies as a wonderful resource for poodle translation :-)
1 hr
agree  Gayle Wallimann
3 hrs
agree  airmailrpl
3 hrs
agree  wendyzee (X)
19 hrs
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +2
Locus B is BB or Bb, locus D is dd.


Explanation:
It's basically a black dog, but with homozygous d (recessive colour dilution allele) in locus D.

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Note added at 2003-05-25 12:28:55 (GMT)
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The Inheritance of Coat Color in Dogs, Clarence C. Little, Howell Book House Inc., 1957. ISBN 0-87605-612-4.

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Note added at 2003-05-25 15:55:49 (GMT)
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HTML colour code approx.: #5A617B


    Clarence C. Little.
Sven Petersson
Sweden
Local time: 18:15
Native speaker of: Native in SwedishSwedish, Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in pair: 160

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  DGK T-I: impressive
1 hr
  -> :o)
agree  Kaori Myatt: interesting
16 hrs
  -> Thank you very much!
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