irish setter

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   an Irish breed with a chestnut-brown or mahogany-red coat

   Synonymsred setter

   Broadersetter

Questions about irish setter

What does irish setter mean?

irish setter means "an Irish breed with a chestnut-brown or mahogany-red coat".

What is another word for irish setter?

Close synonyms include red setter. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is irish setter a common word?

irish setter 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.