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chevreuil

chevreuil noun: a roe deer, a roebuck.

Noun

chevreuil (plural chevreuils)

  1. A roe deer, a roebuck.
    • We found a chevreuil, and, could we have got him once out of the covert, no doubt should have had an excellent run towards Mortefontaine; but as he was determined not to go straight away, and we were not strong enough to make him, after a short gallop we gave it up.1840, Sporting Magazine - Volume 95, page 306
    • Alexander, with some friends, had gone out to shoot a day or two before, and brought home plenty of game; and by seven o'clock Chevet arrived with a salmon of fifty pounds-weight, a chevreuil roasted entire, and served upon a huge silver dish, and a monster pasty.1873, Fitzgerald's Life and Adventures of Alexander Dumas, “Chambers's Journal”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 50, number 1, page 136

Forms of chevreuil

pluralchevreuils

Origin of chevreuil

Borrowed from French chevreuil. Cognate of translingual Capreolus.

Questions about chevreuil

What does chevreuil mean?
Chevreuil means a roe deer, a roebuck.
What part of speech is chevreuil?
Chevreuil is a noun.
What is the plural of chevreuil?
The plural of chevreuil is chevreuils.

Words near chevreuil in the dictionary

  1. Chevrel phase
  2. Chevrel phases
  3. chevres
  4. chevrette
  5. chevrettes
  6. chevreuil
  7. chevreuils
  8. Chevreulian
  9. Chevreuse
  10. Chevrolet
  11. Chevrolets

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