mink

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They're rich in furs--mink, ermine, red, white, silver gray and black fox.

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  1. noun Any of various semiaquatic carnivores of the genus Mustela, especially M. vison of North America, resembling the weasel and having short ears, a pointed snout, short legs, and partly webbed toes.
  2. noun The soft thick lustrous fur of this animal.
  3. noun A coat, stole, or hat made of the fur of this animal.

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  • Her costars, Humphrey Bogart and William Holden, would alternately come to hate Audrey and love her while working on Sabrina Falling in love with Holden was not something Audrey planned to do, nor was it something she ever talked about, but it was an incontrovertible fact, like her mink-brown eyes. —  Audrey Hepburn
  • Got the small ears and bright eyes of a mink, and kind of a muscular body There's something funny about that lad You're telling me They approached Haatz, shouldering the crowd away from the man. —  097 - The All-White Elf
  • We have the otter and mink, and wild ducks winter in our brooks. —  Memories and Anecdotes
  • He paused long enough to grasp his victim's red garment near the hem, and shuck it off the wearer in the fashion that a mink is skinned. —  067 - The Red Terrors
  • I've dissected a mink, a sheep brain, a heart, a sheep's eye, and other things like that. —  HijabMan - journal
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  1. Middle English, mink fur, possibly of Scandinavian origin.

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  1. Formerly also minx (apparently an error); apparently from Swedish mänk, a mink (Putorius lutreola), transferred from the European mink to the American species.
 

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