foxhounds in English

noun
1
a dog of a smooth-haired breed with drooping ears, often trained to hunt foxes in packs over long distances.
By the late thirteenth century, King Edward I had a royal pack of foxhounds but it was not until several centuries later that foxhunting was generally taken up by the nobility.

Use "foxhounds" in a sentence

Below are sample sentences containing the word "foxhounds" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "foxhounds", or refer to the context using the word "foxhounds" in the English Dictionary.

1. Selective breeding in Louisiana of Foxhounds, Curs, French Hounds and English Coonhounds produced the Bluetick Coonhound.

2. Her former husband is Britain's most distinguished amateur huntsman and Master of the Duke of Beafort's foxhounds.

3. You, Boxer, the very day that those great muscles of yours lose their power, Jones will sell you to the knacker, who will cut your throat and boil you down for the foxhounds.

4. The border terrier was bred to have long enough legs to keep up with the horses and other foxhounds, which traveled with them, and small enough bodies to crawl in the burrows of foxes and chase them out so the hunters had a blank shot.