red setter

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

   SynonymsIrish setter

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Questions about red setter

What does red setter mean?

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

What is another word for red setter?

Close synonyms include Irish 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 red setter a common word?

red 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.