civet-catn.
= civet n.1 1 (Also applied in ridicule to a person perfumed with civet.)
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Carnivora > family Viverridae > [noun] > genus Viverra
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Carnivora > family Viverridae > [noun] > genus Viverra > viverra civetta (civet)
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the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > fragrance > [noun] > action of perfuming > one who is perfumed
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1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 756 Of the Zibeth, or Sivet-cat.
1635 J. Swan Speculum Mundi ix. §1. 415 The Zibeth or Sivet-cat, is a beast bigger than any Cat, and lesser than a Badger.
1738 A. Pope One Thousand Seven Hundred & Thirty Eight Dialogue II 12 All your Courtly Civet-Cats can vent, Perfume to you, to me is Excrement.
1770 T. Gray Let. 14 Sept. in Corr. (1971) III. 1147 Are her subjects all civet-cats & musk-deer?
1813 W. Milburn Oriental Commerce I. 104 Civet..is produced by an animal called the civet cat.
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