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A fancy word for bragging about your ancestors' choices, not your own.
means A record of ancestry or lineage — especially one used to prove purebred status or distinguished descent — that traces where someone or something came from.
from From French 'pied de grue,' literally 'crane's foot.' Medieval scribes drawing family trees used a three-line branching mark to show descent, and it resembled the splayed, three-toed foot of a crane — so the diagram's nickname became the word for the lineage itself.
- origin
- from French pied de grue, crane's foot, family tree shape
- dog shows
- papers prove lineage, not personality or health
- inbreeding risk
- obsessing over pure bloodlines can concentrate genetic disorders
- human use
- applied to people, it quietly means old money