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dogtrot
/ ˈdɒɡˌtrɒt /
noun
- a gently paced trot
Example Sentences
Pat was one of eight children reared in the family’s dogtrot house in the cotton patch.
I had slowed to a dogtrot as I passed the pond, and when I reached the store I stopped, got partly behind it, and sat down where I could still watch the road.
The dogtrot house, popular in America's south, was bisected by a covered, open-ended corridor to let breezes through.
Christian homilies, dogtrot poetry, and treacly moralizing are delivered in a smooth, slightly formal country voice that goes down like lemonade with all the tang sugared out of it.
During the summer, Winedale is haunted by the voices of students in the Shakespeare program, who read The Bard’s works in the dogtrots of the old houses.
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