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  • noun Obsolete form of tiger.

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Examples

  • The bargeman said that in Spanish times, when a road was opened from St. Augustine on the Atlantic Coast to Pensacola on the Gulf, there were still buffalo in these savannas, and also the great jaguar, called tigre, and panthers, bears, and red wolves were still common.

    An Epic of the Everglades Dirda, Michael 2008

  • The tigre was a smallish thing, blade under nine centimeters long, with a fat, rounded handle about the same length, making the sheathed knife easy to hide on a belt under a jacket or even a loose blouse.

    Mushtaq's Knife/The Gangster Conspiracy Steve Perry 2006

  • The tigre was a smallish thing, blade under nine centimeters long, with a fat, rounded handle about the same length, making the sheathed knife easy to hide on a belt under a jacket or even a loose blouse.

    Archive 2006-08-01 Steve Perry 2006

  • Directly in front of him and Ned, and not more than a hundred yards away, was a great tawny and spotted jaguar -- the "tigre" or tiger of

    Tom Swift in the Land of Wonders, or, the Underground Search for the Idol of Gold Victor [pseud.] Appleton

  • For there was in the woods an animal of the leopard family, called tiger or "tigre" by the natives, that was exceedingly fierce and dangerous.

    Tom Swift in the Land of Wonders, or, the Underground Search for the Idol of Gold Victor [pseud.] Appleton

  • One day in my eagerness to get near what I believed to be one, I rushed into rather unpleasant proximity with a jaguar, the "tigre" of the natives.

    The Naturalist in Nicaragua Thomas Belt 1855

  • One, the amuse-bouche, ceviche of scallops and shrimp, with the leche de tigre served alongside in a tall shot glass, to wake the appetite.

    The Kitchen Daughter Jael McHenry 2011

  • Namesake cebiches include the limeño $14: a medley of red snapper, octopus, calamari, scallops and shrimp in a bright and lemony ají limo leche de tigre.

    Bold Tastes at Madison Square Park 2011

  • Ahora, Una sola pregunta, supuestamente ya sabemos quien es el Ing. Radhames Segura, ahora … quien Conoce al LADRONAZO de Celso Marranzini, que vendia energia con su distribuidora ILEGAL, a una suma de 200% mas cara que lo que el la Compraba … y ahora es el Titular de la institucion que el y su grupo de empresarios tiene QUEBRADO … que carajazo va resolver ese tigre.

    Global Voices in English » Dominican Republic: Solving the Issue of Power Outages 2009

  • One, the amuse-bouche, ceviche of scallops and shrimp, with the leche de tigre served alongside in a tall shot glass, to wake the appetite.

    The Kitchen Daughter Jael McHenry 2011

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