🐔 A striped chicken 🧑 A mixed ancestry term

dominicker

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A chicken with black and white striped feathers like a Dominique

noun
/ˈdɒmɪnɪkər/

: gallina dominique

The farmer raised a beautiful dominicker with striking black-and-white barred feathers.

Examples

He told of one particular cock, a big dominicker that lived for nothing but to fight and tread hens.

Fiction book (1997)
Of epic struggles, spectacular victories in which the dominicker, looking to be facing certain defeat, would fly into the rafters of the barn where the fight was held and roost there until all the spectators.

Fiction book (1997)
Junior also told of how the women flung themselves at him in his travels with about the vigor of the dominicker falling on his foe.

Fiction book (1997)
At the county fair, the dominicker won first place in the poultry competition.
She admired the dominicker for its unique and eye-catching plumage.

Synonyms

Dominique

vsdominicker

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An American chicken with grey-striped feathers raised for meat and brown eggs

is the same bird but uses a different common name form

Dominick

vsdominicker

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An American chicken with barred grey feathers raised for meat and brown eggs

is the same breed but the other name is the more common form

Surface Forms

dominicker singular

dominickers plural

Etymology

Dominicker comes from the old American chicken breed Dominique, a bird known for its black-and-white 'barred' feathers, so Dominicker simply names that striped chicken.