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Chinchilla

noun

The expensive silvery grey fur of the chinchilla.

A thick twilled fabric of wool and cotton.

Small rodent with soft pearly grey fur; native to the Andes but bred in captivity for fur. Synonym: Chinchilla laniger.

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"Chinchilla" Quotes from Famous Books

... who like to knit will be glad to know how to make this pretty scarf. It is knitted with two threads, one of white and the other of chinchilla zephyr worsted, and wooden needles, crosswise, in rounds going back and forth. Strands of worsted are knotted in the ends for fringe. Begin the scarf with a thread of white and a thread of chinchilla worsted, cast on 27 st. (stitch), and knit as follows: ...

— Harper's Young People, March 2, 1880 - An Illustrated Weekly • Various

... when he wants to come into a room." She opened the door, speaking to the cat as though he were a baby: "Did him want his movver? Come then; but he must stay with her!" She lifted the cat, and came back with him in her arms. He was certainly a magnificent animal. A chinchilla grey Persian with long silky hair; a really lordly animal with a haughty bearing despite his gentleness; and with great paws which spread out as he placed them on the ground. Whilst she was fondling him, he suddenly ...

— The Jewel of Seven Stars • Bram Stoker

... silk. The furniture we live with is in some sort like our own person; seeing ourselves every day, we end, like the Baron, by thinking ourselves but little altered, and still youthful, when others see that our head is covered with chinchilla, our forehead scarred with circumflex accents, our stomach assuming the rotundity of a pumpkin. So these rooms, always blazing in Betty's eyes with the Bengal fire of Imperial victory, were ...

— Poor Relations • Honore de Balzac

... amass her little property. Her complexion, early discolored, had something the tint of steel. Her brown eyes were framed in brown; on the upper lip was a brown floss like a sort of smoke. Her lips were thin, and her imperious forehead was surmounted by hair once black, now turning to chinchilla. She held herself as straight as the fairest beauty; but all things else about her showed the hardiness of her life, the deadening of her natural fire, the ...

— The Lesser Bourgeoisie • Honore de Balzac

Words linked to "Chinchilla" : rodent, genus Chinchilla, pelt, coating, fur, mountain chinchilla, Chinchilla laniger, rat chinchilla, gnawer