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In ten or twelve days after the cocon is finished, the worm makes its way through it, in the form of a very ugly, unwieldy, aukward butterfly, and as the different sexes are placed by one another on paper or linen, they immediately engender.

Travels through France and Italy 2004

It was a Corsican who had years before called him cochon sauvage -- cocon chauvage, as Hoka mispronounced it.

In the South Seas Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

Déjà présenté il y a peu sur TrendsNow pour leurs immenses tigres lumineux installés à Sydney à l'occasion du nouvel an chinois, un petit retour sur l'intéressant concept de « seconde peau » en forme de cocon transparent intégrant des cellules photovoltaïques imaginé par le studio de design

TrendsNow boss 2010

Presumably, cocon, harpon, peloton, and rigaudon contain a diminutive and therefore do not show the same original value.

VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol 1 No 4 1974

In about ten days after the last moulting, the silk-worm climbs upon the props of his house, and choosing a situation among the heath, begins to spin in a most curious manner, until he is quite inclosed, and the cocon or pod of silk, about the size of a pigeon’s egg, which he has produced remains suspended by several filaments.

Travels through France and Italy 2004

According to Robinet, the white race, called Sina, by careful selection during the last seventy-five years, "est arrivée à un tel état de pureté, qu'on ne voit pas un seul cocon jaune dans des millions de cocons blancs." [

The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. Charles Darwin 1845