truebred

Adjective

truebred (comparative more truebred, superlative most truebred)

1. Purebred.
   • A truebred nag, whenever walking or trotting, or if ever spoken to, should carry its tail right out.1895, Ontario. Legislative Assembly, Sessional Papers - Legislature of the Province of Ontario
   • While Mendel was able to start his experiments with truebred tall and truebred dwarf peas, neither of which had any trace of the other in its past breeding history, his results were naturally more uniform and positive than can possibly be attained with Beagles, large and small...1949, Glenn G. Black, American Beagling, page 250
2. Genuine
   • These two authors were truebred soldiers and heroes, who distinguished themselves in the most famous battles of this war, one in the battle of Port Arthur and the other in the battle of the Japan Sea, and were at the same time men of1941, Contemporary Japan: A Review of Far Eastern Affairs
   • In addition, the relationship of merchants with bureaucrats and the ulama needs to be explained, as does the connection between urban notables and the merchant class, since it is virtually impossible to find a truebred merchant mentioned in historical sources of the pre-modern age.2013, Masashi Haneda, Islamic Urban Studies, →ISBN, page 263
3. Of proper lineage.
   • "He was not 'illegal,' as you ignorantly put it, Sireno. He was a truebred Church, but a wild young wastrel."1950, The New Yorker - Volume 26, page 65
   • A cairn was built. It started as a hybrid Sherpa-Ladakhi one, but this fell down. The final truebred Sherpa one seemed firm enough.1958, Joyce Dunsheath, Mountains and memsahibs, page 152