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A Pyrenean chamois (Rupicapra pyrenaica).

Noun

  1. A Pyrenean chamois (Rupicapra pyrenaica).
    • [T]hat threatening aspect with which they seemed to hang over the wandering traveller […] bid him to fear, lest even the light steps of the Izard (the Chamois of the Pyrenees), or the wild goats, who now and then...

Origin

From French isard; further derivation uncertain.

Forms

izards isard