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chevreuil en · NOUN

Etymology

Borrowed from French chevreuil. Cognate of translingual Capreolus.

Meanings

1. A roe deer, a roebuck.
   • Well, the last night we were in Paris I'd been out shooting at Ben Gallagher's in the Sologne the day before and he had a fermée, you know, they put up a low fence while they're out feeding, and shot rabbits in the morning and in the afternoon we had several drives and shot pheasants and I shot a chevreuil. 1935, Earnest Hemmingway, Green Hills of Africa:
   • I have convinced him that our deer is not a Chevreuil, and would you believe that many letters to different acquaintances in Virginia, where this animal is so common, have never enabled me to present him with a large pair of their horns, 1903, Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Adgate Lipscomb, Albert Ellery Bergh, The Writings of Thomas Jefferson - Volume 6, page 21:
   • Alexander, with some friends, had gone out to shoot a day or two before, and brought home plenty of game; and by seven o'clock Chevet arrived with a salmon of fifty pounds-weight, a chevreuil roasted entire, and served upon a huge silver dish, and a monster pasty. 1873, Fitzgerald's Life and Adventures of Alexander Dumas, “Chambers's Journal”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 50, number 1, page 136:
   • We found a chevreuil, and, could we have got him once out of the covert, no doubt should have had an excellent run towards Mortefontaine; but as he was determined not to go straight away, and we were not strong enough to make him, after a short gallop we gave it up. 1840, Sporting Magazine - Volume 95, page 306:

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