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After the Carolinas, where the dogs were first discovered or rediscovered in the modern era.
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Carolina dog
Today it means: A type of dog, thought to have reached the North American continent before Europeans (and European dogs), which has a fawn, black, white, or piebald coat and which naturally roams the cypress swamps of the Carolinas, but may be domesticated. Full definition →