Shaggy white dogs, once great favourites with ladies. Shakespeare mentions them (Henry V., ii. 1).
“Use and custome bath intatained … Iceland dogges curled and rough all over, which, by reason of the length of their heire make showe neither of face nor of body.”—Fleming: Of English Dogges (1576).
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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