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Guinefort
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French
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thumb|Saint Guinefort (1)
Etymology
Possibly from Breton; guen + frout.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
a 13th-century French greyhound that received local veneration as a folk saint
fr 1885 Alfred Rambaud Histoire de la civilisation française 313 https://books.google.com/books?id=RCk2AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA313&hl=en Alor les paysans du voisinage, émus de cette histoire, rendirent a saint Guinefort, chien et martyr, des honneurs divins. So the peasants from the neighborhood, moved by this story, rendered divine honors to Saint Guinefort, dog and martyr.
an Italian saint from Pavia