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n. - Small compact smooth-coated breed of Asiatic origin having a tightly curled tail and broad flat wrinkled muzzle.

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  • A large, coffee-colored pug-dog was lying before the fire.
  • A woman must love something -- even if she hasn't anything better to love than a pug-dog or herself.
  • The Maharani presented Lady Roberts with a beautiful little Chinese pug-dog, and the Maharaja gave me a gold-mounted
  • Turning westward his old asthmatic pug-dog countenance, he gazed at you with big, lustreless eyes, in a way that said, “You were saying?”
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