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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

... 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 cost of what ...

— The Lesser Bourgeoisie • Honore de Balzac

... for four years. We talked about our respective homes; they eulogized the Valencian plain while I replied that I preferred the mountains. As we passed some bare, treeless hills such as abound near Chinchilla, one of them—the one, in fact, who had ...

— Youth and Egolatry • Pio Baroja

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