Also 7 vicogne. [F., ad. Sp. vicuña VICUÑA.]
1. = VICUÑA 1.
1660. F. Brooke, trans. Le Blanc’s Trav., 381. Vicognes are like Deer without hornes.
1774. Goldsm., Nat. Hist. (1862), I. xiv. 234. The Sheep, the Goat, the Lama, the Vigogne, the Gazella.
2. A textile fabric made from the wool of the vicuña, used as a dress material; vicuña-cloth.
1876. Echo, 30 Aug. (Stanf.).
1882. Caulfeild & Saward, Dict. Needlework, 515/1. Vigogne, a delicate all wool textile, twilled, and produced in neutral colours.
1887. Pall Mall G., 19 Feb., 8/2. The bride’s going-away dress was composed of chocolate brown vigogne.
3. Vigogne yarn, a mixture of the wool of the vicuña, or other fine wool, and cotton.
1884. W. S. B. McLaren, Spinning, 47. In making vigogne or angola yarns, which are mixtures of cotton and wool. Ibid., 185. For mixing wool and cotton together for Vigogne yarn.
