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"Merle" is a special word for a coat pattern you see on some dogs (and a few other animals) - patches of a darker color spread over a lighter base, like grey smoke mixed with black, giving a , marbled look. Breeders and dog-lovers use this word a lot, especially for breeds like Border , Australian Shepherds, and Corgis. Long ago, "merle" was also an old, poetic word for a blackbird, but almost nobody uses it that way now.
大理石紋（merle，常用來形容狗的花色）
組成It comes from an old French word "merle", meaning "blackbird" - the name may have started because the mottled pattern reminded people of a blackbird's dark, freckled feathers, though this is just a guess people make, not a proven fact.
原始詞典資料7 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Merlename詞源 1
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A surname from French of French origin.
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A male given name transferred from the surname.
- Merle Haggard is a name out of a morality play. And that's the kind of songs he sings.
Merlename詞源 2
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A female given name from English.
- Her name was Merle, and to her name she always said she owed the fact that Gilbert Vanborough ever looked at her.
- "I wish I had a name like Merle Oberon or Miriam Hopkins," Mary Agnes said dreamily as she scanned the display of Coming Attractions.
merlenoun詞源 1/mɜːl/
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A Eurasian blackbird, Turdus merula.
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Any blackbird.
merlenoun詞源 2/mɜːl/
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A type of mottled coloration on dogs.
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A dog having this coloration.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。