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douc

/ duːk /

noun

  1. an Old World monkey, Pygathrix nemaeus, of SE Asia, with a bright yellow face surrounded by tufts of reddish-brown fur, a white tail, and white hindquarters: one of the langurs

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Word History and Origins

Origin of douc1

C18: from French, from the native name

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Example Sentences

These large apes are the ouanderou and the douc; to them, therefore, we must refer the production of the bezoar.

To Cochin-China also belongs the Douc, a very large species, remarkable for their coat of many colours.

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