highbred

[ hahy-bred ]

adjective

1. of superior breed.
2. characteristic of superior breeding:

   highbred manners.

Word History and Origins

Origin of highbred¹

First recorded in 1665–75; high + bred

Example Sentences

“In polite company, you might want to compare a violin’s song to something more palatable. Like a highbred cat. Though you, my dear, play like a cat dying.”

From Nature

In the park, my mutt played on equal turf with highbred wolfhounds and common pit bulls.

From The New Yorker

They acquired some highbred mares and started breeding.

From Washington Times

He described 19th-century “path-makers,” highbred gentlemen who spent summers armchair-engineering intricate paths around Mount Desert Island’s barren 1,500-foot peaks, glacial lakes and ironbound shoreline.

From New York Times

“It matches nothing and goes with everything,” added Veronica Miele Beard, her partner in the three-year-old fashion house that courts, evenhandedly, young Uptown matrons, turbo-powered corporate strivers and highbred urban gypsies.

From New York Times