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- A dorsal line or stripe in cattle markings
#* 1967, Robert Trow-Smith, Life from the Land: The Growth of Farming in Western Europe, page 20:
#*: Its characteristic finching�the white streak that runs along the spine from neck to tail�that is so noticeable in cave paintings at Lascaux, is also still to be found occasionally, notably in the last surviving handful of Gloucestershire cattle on some farms on[...].
#* 1983, Ralph Whitlock, English Farm, page 167:
#*: The white face and finching which are the visual hallmarks of the modern Hereford were becoming established by the end of the eighteenth[...].
- The sport of hunting of finches
#* 2004, The Dutch Historical-Geographical Journal, magazine issue 22 1:
#*: The finching yards of the country estates were important meeting points of the elite.
- Belgium|lang=en the sport of competitive finch display
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