| 单词 | civet-cat |
| 释义 | civet-cat = civet 1. (Also applied in ridicule to a person perfumed with civet.)
1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1673) 585 Of the Zibeth, or Sivet-cat. 1635Swan Spec. M. (1670) 415 The Zibet, or Civet cat, is a beast bigger than any cat and lesser than a Badger. 1738Pope Epil. Sat. ii. 183 All your courtly civet-cats can vent, Perfume to you, to me is excrement. 1770Gray Corr. w. Nicholls (1843) 113 Are her subjects all civet-cats and musk-deer? 1813Milburn Orient. Comm. I. 104 Civet..is produced by an animal called the civet cat. |
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