Gloucester Old Spot

noun

1. a hardy rare breed of pig, white with a few black markings, that originally lived off windfalls in orchards in the Severn valley

Example Sentences

Simon Daws has run the Gloucester Old Spot pub in Cheltenham for a decade, but recent times have been his biggest challenge, he says.

From BBC

Other UK products that have protected origin status include Gloucester Old Spot pigs and Jersey Royal potatoes.

From BBC

Nestling at the bottom of a railway embankment between houses, builders yards and a car rental depot, it has sties, snoozing Gloucester Old Spot pigs, a paddock with caramel-coloured Dexter cattle grazing and vegetable plots in which you might see the farmer and her three young children at work.

From The Guardian

At Forthill Farm, he raises breeds of livestock that have fallen out of fashion with the rise of factory farming — longhorn cattle, Gloucester old spot pigs, Herdwick sheep — but they’ve made a comeback of sorts in “Game of Thrones,” the hit HBO fantasy that ends its eight-season run Sunday.

From Los Angeles Times

The labor in the kitchen had been long and hard all day in the heat, and the residue was everywhere: the flagstone floor was slick with the spilt grease of roasted meat and trodden-in peel; sodden tea towels, tributes to heroic forgotten labors, drooped above the range like decaying regimental banners in church; nudging Cecilia’s shin, an overflowing basket of vegetable trimmings which Betty would take home to feed to her Gloucester Old Spot, fattening for December.

From Literature