Glandular secretion produced by both sexes of the civet cat, for use in perfumery.
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Examples for "civet "
Examples for "civet "
1 Give me an ounce of civet , good apothecary, to sweeten my imagination.
2 A thick hot smell of bitter almond, civet , cumin, wormseed and orris!
3 We are not talking about just civet cats, but all animals, he added.
4 There are also many civet -cats , and all sorts of fruit as in China.
5 It has many civet -cats , and produces, the noblest elephants in all the east.
1 Then it must have been a Zibet , a specie not unlike the American civet.
1 Her dark eyes glittered in the subdued scarlet light from the scarf-covered bulb and she exuded a perfume of musk and jasmine and civet oil .
1 The names of all our chief perfumes are Arabic or Persian: civet , musk, ambergris, attar, camphor, etc.
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