Guinefort
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Etymology
[edit]Possibly from Breton; guen + frout.
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Guinefort ?
- Saint Guinefort
- a 13th-century French greyhound that received local veneration as a folk saint
- 1885, Alfred Rambaud, Histoire de la civilisation française[1], page 313:
- Alor les paysans du voisinage, émus de cette histoire, rendirent a saint Guinefort, chien et martyr, des honneurs divins.
- So the peasants from the neighborhood, moved by this story, rendered divine honors to Saint Guinefort, dog and martyr.
- an Italian saint from Pavia
- a 13th-century French greyhound that received local veneration as a folk saint