Definitions
Catlike mammal known for musk.
Word origin
From French civette, from Italian zibetto, from Medieval Latin zibethum, from Arabic زَبَاد (zabād).
Used in a sentence
“LEONATO. Indeed he looks younger than he did, by the loss of a beard. DON PEDRO. Nay, a' rubs himself with civet: can you smell him out by that? CLAUDIO. That's as much as to say the sweet youth's in love.”
“[…]even if modest gestures of modernisation have slimmed down the ceremony, the chrism of unction is no longer perfumed with animal effluents—ambergris, musk and civet—and Andrew Lloyd Webber added to Handel and Elgar?”
“I believe other animals are the same; but skunk and civet are not so particular what they eat; anything half decomposed or rotten will answer.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Musk mammal”5 letters
Not quite right?
"Search similar patterns."
C____