DCHP-3

white wolf

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a white color phase of the common wolf, Canis lupus.

Quotations

1821
We saw . . . a number of deer, and, occasionally, a solitary white wolf. . . .
1853
It was also of a snow-white colour, with long hair, bushy tail, and short erect ears, but its aspect was not to be mistaken. It was the great white wolf.
1855
The white wolf skin in season is esteemed an article of royalty; it is one of the chief honours of the chieftainship and much used by these people in their religious ceremonies, and the kind of wolves are not numerous.
1892
"Wal, I follered that buffier like a white wolf. I wur determined to hev that baler, boys, and so I glued myself to his tail, an tore arter him. . . ."