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