| 单词 | vicuna |
| 例句 | Modern merchants wanting this luxury wool have had to resort either to this same method or simply to killing wild vicunas. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z A similar problem has frustrated schemes to breed the vicuna, an Andean wild camel whose wool is prized as the finest and lightest of any animal’s. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The ancient Incas obtained vicuna wool by driving wild vicunas into corrals, shearing them, and then releasing them alive. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z They are not committed to a two-season cycle, private planes and yachts, sable and vicuna. Millennials Are Taking Over Fashion Too 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z Outfits were prevalently in wool white, melange grey and vicuna beige, dotted with browns, greys, petrol blue a pond green. Zegna's relaxed, classical-inspired looks open Milan's men fashion 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z Johnny Carson left the building in 1987 after an episode with Mr. Trump over a missing vicuna coat: The talk show host accused two Trump employees of stealing it and demanded that they be fired. Trump Tower, a Home for Celebrities and Charlatans 2017-08-12T04:00:00Z They are about the difference between cashmere and vicuna. Opinion | $1.3 Million for That? 2017-11-04T04:00:00Z “A gift-bearing Martian, wearing a vicuna coat, last summer landed on the White House front lawn, skittered up to a guard,” began the joke. The Silliest Martian Jokes of the Space Age 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z For centuries, hunters killed the elusive vicuna for its wool and leather rather than shear the animals live. AP PHOTOS: Wooly vicunas sheared at Inca festival in Andes 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z "The problem is the demand for vicuna products is so high and people are willing to pay a lot of money for them," he said. High demand for luxury wool prompts poachers to slaughter vicunas 2015-06-21T04:00:00Z The family-owned outfit specializes in sourcing extremely rare material, like the wool of the vicuna, a llama-like critter native to Peru and fiber from Myanmar lotus flowers. Prada's Latest Move Upmarket: Buying a Stinky French Tannery 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z Guanacos, close cousins of llamas and vicunas, produce a fibre superior to cashmere. Capacity building: Architects of South American science 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z Some of its most sumptuous items are made with fabric of the vicuna, a South American relative of the llama that Loro Piana says it helped save from extinction. DealBook: LVMH Buying the Luxury Clothier Loro Piana 2013-07-08T22:18:38Z For weaving, the most valuable pieces are mohair taken from the angora and vicuna. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" 2011-08-15T02:00:28.473Z "Many of the families who used to cultivate vicunas left the mountains and went down to the cities," Castro said. High demand for luxury wool prompts poachers to slaughter vicunas 2015-06-21T04:00:00Z The fabric of the single-breasted suit was sourced from vicuna and qiviuk, two of the most expensive sources of wool in the world. The $26,000 Diamond Blackberry 2011-05-31T05:17:56Z Llamas, condors, ostrich-like nandus, flamingos and the reclusive cousin to the llama, vicunas, scatter when the massive convoy rumbles through some of their last natural habitats. Dakar Rally Fuels Cheers, Jeers 2011-01-17T02:06:37Z “The bird would have been no use to us, but I dare say its death would have saved the lives of a good many young vicunas and llamas.” Real Gold A Story of Adventure They have a similar wool to the vicuna, but coarser and redder; both are largely used in South America. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" 2011-08-15T02:00:28.473Z Torres said stricter controls must be enforced in global trade of vicuna fiber if the tradition is to survive. High demand for luxury wool prompts poachers to slaughter vicunas 2015-06-21T04:00:00Z A frigid young lady sacrificed for her benefit an abominable vicuna coat which, she said, fitted Victoria like a glove. A Bed of Roses Nor was he wearing the dark-blue vicuna topcoat he had reclaimed an hour before from the checkroom girl in the restaurant back in the city. A World Apart The ground was thickly covered with a short, wild grass and appeared to be the natural dwelling place of the alpacas and wild vicunas. Where Strongest Tide Winds Blew The natives of Patagonia make up many robes of the guanaco and vicuna, dressing the skins and sewing them together with sinew. Home Taxidermy for Pleasure and Profit A Guide for Those Who Wish to Prepare and Mount Animals, Birds, Fish, Reptiles, etc., for Home, Den, or Office Decoration Despite the increasingly high prices for vicuna wool, Castro said, legitimate shearing of the animals is becoming less profitable. High demand for luxury wool prompts poachers to slaughter vicunas 2015-06-21T04:00:00Z Overcoating—Fabrics woven especially for overcoats—covert, kersey, melton, beaver, frieze, vicuna, whipcord, cheviot, chinchilla, etc., made of both wool and worsted. Textiles and Clothing He looked down at his sleek dark vicuna coat, visualized the rise of plump stomach beneath it, reached in his breast pocket for a panatella. A World Apart Often I would spend hours in the wild solitudes hunting the vicuna and alpaca, or in some gloomy cañon communing with myself. Where Strongest Tide Winds Blew On her head is a hat of soft vicuna wool, with a band of bullion, a bordering of gold lace around the rim, and a plume of heron’s feather curving above the crown. The Lone Ranche The condor, like other vultures, feeds principally upon carrion; but, when pressed with hunger, he will kill sheep, lambs, vicunas, young lamas, deer, and other animals. The Boy Hunters Vicuna—A soft twilled cloth similar to cheviot, made of the Andes vicuna, hence its name. Textiles and Clothing In the afternoon he was suddenly called upon to do a big "royal" matinée, and this necessitated a run to his chambers in order to change from Harris tweed into vicuna and cashmere. Brood of the Witch-Queen Soldiers marched in, escorting strings of mules carrying chests of gold and silver, goatskins filled with bezoar stones, and bales of vicuna wool. On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. He always wore a voluminous frock-coat, with a pair of neatly-striped vicuna trousers, which he placed every night under his mattress, thus preserving in perfection the crease down the centre of each. A Christmas Garland A tailor would have said that it was a "superb vicuna raglan sack." The First Hundred Thousand White linen replaced red flannel, bowie knives and revolvers were sedately hidden beneath frock coats, the vicuna hat was a substitute for slouch and sombrero. Port O' Gold A History-Romance of the San Francisco Argonauts The Peruvian herdsmen would have had great trouble to endure had the llama and alpaca not existed, for their cogeners, the huanacu and the vicuna, are hardly to be domesticated. Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development Pack after pack was found to consist of merchandise—vicuna wool, or dried provender for the galleons. On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. Then there is the wild vicuna, the fleece of which is made into a sort of wool, after which a certain kind of cloth is named. Tom Swift and His Big Tunnel, or, the Hidden City of the Andes A crimson mantle of fine vicuna wool, fastened on his shoulders by golden puma's heads. Apu Ollantay A Drama of the Time of the Incas Hanging from one of the hooks was a moth-eaten vicuna smoking jacket of blue. Quill's Window And when a herd of vicunas was hotly pursued by hunters, H.A. Mutual Aid; a factor of evolution Were they wild beasts from the Pampas, or herds of llamas and vicunas? In Search of the Castaways; or the Children of Captain Grant The puma, the jaguar, the tapir, the capybara, the llama, or glama, and vicuna, and the whole tribe of sapajous, were to them entirely new animals, of which they had not the smallest idea.... A History of Science — Volume 3 It was probably the delicate wool of the vicuna, none of which had then been seen in Europe. History of the Conquest of Peru; with a preliminary view of the civilization of the Incas The light-looted vicuna, roaming in its native state, might be sometimes seen looking down from some airy cliff, where the foot of the hunter dared not venture. History of the Conquest of Peru In the Pliocene the one branch went southward, to develop into the llamas and vicunas, and the other branch crossed to Asia, to develop into the camels. The Story of Evolution They were employed in spinning and embroidery, and, with the fine hair of the vicuna, wove the hangings for the temples, and the apparel for the Inca and his household. History of the Conquest of Peru; with a preliminary view of the civilization of the Incas The coarser quality was worked up into garments for their own use, and the finer for the Inca; for none but an Inca noble could wear the fine fabric of the vicuna. History of the Conquest of Peru; with a preliminary view of the civilization of the Incas The light-footed vicuna, roaming in its native state, might be sometimes seen looking down from some airy cliff, where the foot of the hunter dared not venture. History of the Conquest of Peru; with a preliminary view of the civilization of the Incas |
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