[F. bouquetin, app. for bouc-estain, ad. Pr. 15th c. bocstagn, Ger. stein-bock.] An animal of the Goat tribe, inhabiting Switzerland; the ibex, or steinbock.
1783. W. F. Martyn, Geog. Mag., II. 312. The … animals … peculiar to this country [Switzerland] are the bouquetin and the chamois.
1824. Campbell, Theodric, 9. Heights browsed by the bounding bouquetin.
1882. Cornh. Mag., Jan., 56. I’m off to the Pyrenees this morning to shoot bears and bouquetins.
