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English
Noun
cochinille (uncountable)
- Obsolete form of cochineal.
1725, A New Dictionary of Heraldry, Explaining the Terms Us’d in That Science, with Their Etymology, and Different Versions of Latin. , London: Jer. Batley , page 290:Afterwards the Scarlet Berries were found upon the Scarlet Oak, which exceeded the Bewty of the former Colour, and ſince then the Weſt India Cochinille, has put down both.
1740, Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas, translated by John Stevens, The General History of the Vast Continent and Islands of America, Commonly Call’d the West-Indies, from the First Discovery Thereof: with the Best Accounts the People Could Give of Their Antiquities, London: Wood and Woodward , page 111:There is a Grove of Tuna-Trees above fifty Leagues in Length, where above an hundred Tun of Cochinille might be gather’d every Year.
1751, Geronymo de Uztariz [i.e., Luis Jerónimo of Uztáriz and Hemiaga], translated by John Kippax, The Theory and Practice of Commerce and Maritime Affairs, volume II, London: John and James Rivington, ; and John Crofts, , page 324:That it is one and two thirds per cent. upon all ſorts of leather, ſkins, and wax from the Levant, looſe cotton from Malta, Alquitran, cochinille, campeche, wood, copperas, lead, gunpowder, pitch, and tin oar; […]