chevreuil

plural chevreuils

1. A roe deer, a roebuck.

   I have convinced him that our deer is not a Chevreuil, and would you believe that many letters to different acquaintances in Virginia, where this animal is so common, have never enabled me to present him with a large pair of their horns,

   1903, Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Adgate Lipscomb, Albert Ellery Bergh, The Writings of Thomas Jefferson - Volume 6, page 21

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   We found a chevreuil, and, could we have got him once out of the covert, no doubt should have had an excellent run towards Mortefontaine; but as he was determined not to go straight away, and we were not strong enough to make him, after a short gallop we gave it up.

   1840, Sporting Magazine - Volume 95, page 306

   Alexander, with some friends, had gone out to shoot a day or two before, and brought home plenty of game; and by seven o'clock Chevet arrived with a salmon of fifty pounds-weight, a chevreuil roasted entire, and served upon a huge silver dish, and a monster pasty.

   1873, Fitzgerald's Life and Adventures of Alexander Dumas, “Chambers's Journal”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 50, number 1, page 136

   Well, the last night we were in Paris I'd been out shooting at Ben Gallagher's in the Sologne the day before and he had a fermée, you know, they put up a low fence while they're out feeding, and shot rabbits in the morning and in the afternoon we had several drives and shot pheasants and I shot a chevreuil.

   1935, Earnest Hemmingway, Green Hills of Africa