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chinchilla|tʃɪnˈtʃɪlə|
Also 7 chinchille and with capital initial.
[Sp.; app. dim. of chinche bug (= OF. cincele, chincele); perh. from an erroneous notion that the animal had a fetid smell, or in contradistinction from a larger beast that had.]
1. A genus of small rodent animals peculiar to South America. Chinchilla lanigera, a native of Peru and Chile, supplies the fine soft greyish chinchilla fur of commerce.
1604E. G. D'Acosta's Hist. Ind. iv. xxxviii, The Chinchilles is another kind of small beasts, like squirrels; they have a wonderfull smoothe and soft skinne. 1622R. Hawkins Voy. S. Sea 157 He is gray; his skinne is the most delicate, soft, and curious furre that I have seene..They call this beast chinchilla. 1824Schmidtmeyer in Penny Cycl. VII. 86/2 The Chinchilla is a woolly field-mouse, which lives underground, and chiefly feeds on wild onions. 1852W. Parish Buenos Ayres iii. xviii. 310 The beautiful little chinchilla, thousands of dozens of the skins of which are yearly collected..for exportation to Europe.
b. Short for chinchilla fur.
1824Schmidtmeyer in Penny Cycl. VII. 86/2 That which comes from Upper Peru is rougher and larger than the Chinchilla of Chile, but not always so beautiful in its colour. 1882in Draper's Dict. s.v.
c. attrib.
1837New Monthly Mag. LI. 251 She also wore a chinchilly tippet. 1879Cassell's Techn. Educ. I. 75 Chinchilla fur is greatly admired for winter clothing.
2. A cloth with a long nap gathered in little tufts, in imitation of this fur.
3. A variety of silver-coloured domestic cat; also attrib., as chinchilla Persian.
1889H. Weir Our Cats 136 The Abyssinian Silver Gray, or Chinchilla, is the same [as the Abyssinian] in all points, with the exception of the ground colour being silver instead of brown. 1893J. K. Jerome Novel Notes vi. 136 The Chinchilla was a lady cat. 1903F. Simpson Book of Cat xii. 137/1 Perhaps no breed or variety of cat has been so much thought about, talked about, and fought about in the fancy as the silver or chinchilla Persian. 1935E. B. Simmons Cats xxviii. 144 A good chinchilla is of a pale, unshaded silver, with green eyes. 1958E. F. Daglish Pet-Keeper's Man. 1 The chinchilla is white with black-tipped hairs on the head, ears, back, sides, and tail.
4. (In full chinchilla rabbit.) A variety of rabbit bred for its fur; also, the fur obtained from this animal.
1904J. R. A. Davis Nat. Hist. Animals VII. lxvii. 243 Some of the races, especially Chinchillas and Angoras, are valued on account of their fur. 1920Bazaar, Exch. & Mart 16 July, Suppl. 74/3 The Havana (that beautiful brown rabbit), and..the Chinchilla. 1921H. A. Day Up-to-Date Rabbit-Keeping 13 The Chinchilla-Coney..is a new French breed that deserves attention. 1922Bazaar, Exch. & Mart 27 Oct. 430/3 In the autumn of 1919, certain enterprising lady fanciers introduced from France some specimens of a new breed called Chinchilla rabbits. 1927Smallholder 26 Mar. 123/1 In Beverens and Chinchillas many specimens only moult twice in the year. 1959Chambers's Encycl. VI. 127/2 The Chinchilla was first discovered as a mutation in Serbia and imported into France about 1912... Chinchilla rapidly became the most popular and best selling skin. |