rillown.
/ˈrɪləʊ/, U.S. /ˈrɪloʊ/ Now chiefly historical and rare.
In Sri Lanka: the toque macaque, Macacus sinica; = rilawa n.
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1681 R. Knox Hist. Relation Ceylon vi. 26 This sort of Monkeys have no beards, white faces, and long hair on the top of their heads... They call these Rillowes.
1772 R. Brookes New Syst. Nat. Hist. (ed. 2) I. xi. 126 They are called rillows, and they are eaten by the inhabitants.
1797 Encycl. Brit. XVII. 498/1 The rillow, cercopithecus sinicus, or Chinese bonnet... Inhabit[s] Ceylon.
1803 R. Percival Acct. Island of Ceylon xiv. 290 The rillow is a very large species, not less than our larger dogs.
1830 E. T. Bennett Gardens & Menagerie Zool. Soc. I. 83 The similarity of sound..would tempt us also to associate with the present species the Rillowes of Knox's Historical Relation of the Island of Ceylon.
1906 Spolia Zeylanica 3 25 There are two principal kinds of monkeys in Ceylon, called respectively in the native language ‘Rilawa’ and ‘Wandura’, referred to by Knox in the anglicized terms ‘Rillows’ and ‘Wanderows’... Troops of ‘Rillows’ and ‘Wanderows’ may sometimes be seen on the same tree.
1964 R. Raven-Hart Ceylon xxiii. 183 A child..came on there with me, very amused by my efforts to photograph a half-tame temple monkey. He called it ‘Rillow’, which is in Knox.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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