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barzoi

barzoi is the obsolete form of borzoi.

Meaning of borzoi

Noun

borzoi (plural borzois or borzoi)

  1. A dog of a particular breed, similar in shape to a greyhound but with longer silkier hair.
    • Pia loves Rob, she had written it with her lipstick on the walls of the vespasienne in the Rue Colombe, waiting for him to finish, holding her pampered borzoi on the leash.1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 171
    Synonyms:
    Russian Hunting Sighthound, Russian Wolfhound, noodle, hose goat, longboye

Forms of barzoi

pluralbarzois

Questions about barzoi

What is barzoi the obsolete form of?
Barzoi is the obsolete form of borzoi.

Words near barzoi in the dictionary

  1. barytum
  2. Baryulgil
  3. barzakh
  4. Barzan
  5. Barzillai
  6. barzoi
  7. Barzunian
  8. Barça
  9. barège
  10. barèges
  11. Baré

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Adapted from Wiktionary: barzoi (page history and authors); borzoi (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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