chevrotin

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Noun

chevrotin (plural chevrotins)

  1. Alternative form of chevrotain
    • 1791, Oliver Goldsmith, “Of Animals of the Sheep and Goat Kind”, in An History of the Earth, and Animated Nature. , new edition, volume III, London: F Wingrave, successor to Mr. Nourse, , →OCLC, page 76:
      To this vve may add the Chevrotin, or little Guinea Deer, vvhich is the leaſt of all cloven-footed quadrupeds, and perhaps the moſt beautiful; its legs, at the ſmalleſt part, are not much thicker than the ſhank of a tobacco-pipe; it is about ſeven inches high, and about tvvelve from the point of the noſe to the inſertion of the tail.

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Noun

chevrotin m (plural chevrotins)

  1. a young roe deer (less than 6 months old)
  2. leather from a deer or goat
  3. a type of cheese, made from goat's milk, from the Savoy

Adjective

chevrotin (feminine chevrotine, masculine plural chevrotins, feminine plural chevrotines)

  1. (relational) of Chevreuse, Chevrières, Chevroz or Chevru

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