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Sheremetev (dog-owner)
Sheremetev's
also: шереметьевские
A name attached to a competing pack of hunting dogs at the baiting, invoked loosely amid the crowd's cross-shouting over ownership rather than as the historical Sheremetev noble family itself.
Reading notes
- At the Wolf-Baiting §18 Sheremetev's
Invoked here not as the noble Sheremetev family itself but loosely, as a name attached to a pack of hunting dogs at the baiting -- part of the crowd's confused cross-shouting over ownership.