guenon

[ guh-nawn, -non ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

any of several long-tailed African monkeys, especially of the genus Cercopithecus, having a grizzled coat.

guenon

/ ɡəˈnɒn /

any slender agile Old World monkey of the genus Cercopithecus, inhabiting wooded regions of Africa and having long hind limbs and tail and long hair surrounding the face

Origin of guenon¹

1830–40; < French < ?

Origin of guenon¹

C19: from French, of unknown origin

The appearance of the hind-part of the cow, from a point near the gambrel-joint up to the tail, Guenon calls the escutcheon.

The following cuts show the marks of all of Guenon's eight classes, the first and the last in each class.

M. Guenon adopted them on account of the shape of the escutcheon, or from the name of the place from which the cows came.

This is as fully as we have room to go into M. Guenon's details.

Nous autres nous en rions, & disons, que c'est s'asseoir en guenon, eux prisent ceste faon & la trouuent commode.

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[flab-er-gast ]

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