LBB: Polling the flist for a name

[delphipsmith]

Lucius has deerhounds, or maybe wolfhounds; we all know that, right?



And he's French -- he's got that certain je ne sai quoi, right? So I need a good name for a big French dog or two. And yes, I know, neither deerhounds nor wolfhounds are French, they're Scottish or Irish or something, but don't pester me with details. I looked at this list but it's giving me issues. The names that je comprends are dumb (Floffy? Floppi? Lucius would DIE of mortification) and I refuse to use a person's name (pas de Belle, pas de Sebastian) and I don't want to use a name je ne comprends pas (Fripouille? Guimauve? WTF?).

So somebody who knows French, or is French, or has French friends, help me out here: if you were French (or proud of your French heritage) and had a big deerhound (or wolfhound) or two, what would you call them?

Comments

[inamac.livejournal.com]

Have you tried looking at some French dog breeds? Like the Grande Bleu De Gascoyne (I can see Lucius with these rather than the deerhounds like Champion Kilbourne Macleod who played Sirius, and his brothers Macbeth and Macdeva were on-set, so presumably Lucius' dogs in the pic.)

French dog names - try French literature - Dartagnan (on the pedigree I linked to) or what about the characters from Les Laisons Dangereuse? Valmont, Danceny, Merteuil, Tourvel.

[delphipsmith]

Ooh, good suggestions -- snarky French folk, an excellent fit :)