= CIVET 1. (Also applied in ridicule to a person perfumed with civet.)
1607. Topsell, Four-f. Beasts (1673), 585. Of the Zibeth, or Sivet-cat.
1635. Swan, Spec. M. (1670), 415. The Zibet, or Civet cat, is a beast bigger than any cat and lesser than a Badger.
1738. Pope, Epil. Sat., II. 183. All your courtly civet-cats can vent, Perfume to you, to me is excrement.
1770. Gray, Corr. w. Nicholls (1843), 113. Are her subjects all civet-cats and musk-deer?
1813. W. Milburn, Orient. Commerce, I. 104. Civet … is produced by an animal called the civet cat.
