dahu

plural dahus

1. human sciencesA legendary goat-like animal reputed to live in the mountains of France, Switzerland, and Italy.

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   Perhaps still sore at being called crétins des Alpes by lowlanders, the Savoyards, in the early days of mass tourism, would sometimes take gullible visitors on dahu hunts. These entailed all-night vigils out in the open, where the would-be trophy hunter had to crouch and hide so as not to be seen by the sharp-eyed dahu.

   2017, Stephen O'Shea, The Alps: A Human History from Hannibal to Heidi and Beyond, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN

plural dahus

1. A large bowed two-stringed chordophone of Chinese origin, a tenor part of the erhu family of instruments.

alternative Tahu

1. A rural township in Miaoli County, Taiwan.

   Dahu is a township of Miaoli County at northern Taiwan.

   2010 November, Yu-Ning Hu, Jerome Chih-Lung Chou, Chia-Liang Hung, “Developing an Effective Industrial Cluster from Strawberry Farms: A Case of Dahu Township in Taiwan”, in Chinese Business Review, volume 9, number 11, archived from the original on 19 Jul 2018, page 34