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caoutchouc

[ kou-chook, kou-chook ]

caoutchouc

/ -ˈtʃʊk; kaʊˈtʃuːk; ˈkaʊtʃuːk; -tʃʊk /

noun

  1. another name for rubber 1
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of caoutchouc1

1765–75; < French < Spanish cauchuc (now obsolete), probably ultimately < an Indian language of lowland tropical South America
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Word History and Origins

Origin of caoutchouc1

C18: from French, from obsolete Spanish cauchuc, from Quechua
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Example Sentences

In the 1700s, a French explorer brought the name "caoutchouc" from a local language: it meant "weeping wood".

From BBC

But they seem to forget, that there is no measure of limitation, for a miracle; and that the salt might have been purposely designed, like caoutchouc, to resist the action of water.

Since then caoutchouc has become one of our great materials of manufacture, applied, not only to clothing, but to useful articles of every description.

It is therefore isomeric with the hydrocarbon of caoutchouc and with that of oil of turpentine.

It would not have been strange if he had arrived that same night from Madagascar or Java, after enriching himself in a caoutchouc expedition.

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