musk cat

English

Alternative forms

muskat [17th c.]

Noun

musk cat (plural musk cats)

(chiefly historical) An animal which secretes musk, such as a civet, or musk deer.
- 1633, John Donne, "The Comparison":
  As the sweet sweat of Roses in a Still, / As that which from chaf'd muskats pores doth trill [...].
(obsolete) A prostitute.

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