flat-coated retriever

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   an English breed having a shiny black or liver-colored coat; retrieves game from land or water

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Questions about flat-coated retriever

What does flat-coated retriever mean?

flat-coated retriever means "an English breed having a shiny black or liver-colored coat; retrieves game from land or water".

Is flat-coated retriever a common word?

flat-coated retriever is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.