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Definition of Broodmares
1. broodmare [n] - See also: broodmare
Lexicographical Neighbors of Broodmares
Literary usage of Broodmares
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept (1901)
"There are several barns in which the broodmares, foals and weanlings are kept,
... Stein\vay and the broodmares, purchased in the east, cost a good deal of ..."
2. Ninth Annual Old Glory Horse Auction of America's Greatest Light Horses at ...by Fasig-Tipton Co by Fasig-Tipton Co (1903)
"His sire is the greatest sire of trotters, and his dam the greatest of all
broodmares, and he himself the fastest son of his sire and dam, and his brother, ..."
3. The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication by Charles Darwin (1899)
"... some generations before the Trojan war, had many broodmares, " which by his
care and judgment in the choice of stallions produced a breed of horse* ..."
4. The Gentleman's Magazine (1869)
"As specimens of broodmares we cannot whip apart Ellen Middleton, Aphrodite, and
Madame Eglantine. Lanercost as a model of power, and Beeswing of neatness, ..."
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