type of small Spitz-type dog, 1760, from Pomerania, former province of Prussia on the south coast of the Baltic Sea.
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Pomerania n.
former duchy and province of Prussia on the Baltic coast of modern Poland (German Pommern, Polish Pomorze), Medieval Latin, from Pomerani, name of a Slavic tribe there, from Polish po morze "by the sea."