"finching" meaning in English

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          "text": "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[...].",
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          "text": "The white face and finching which are the visual hallmarks of the modern Hereford were becoming established by the end of the eighteenth[...].",
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          "text": "The finching yards of the country estates were important meeting points of the elite."
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