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chinchilla

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Definition:
an endangered family of rodents of the Andes mountains in Chile. Their fur is very dense making it popular in the fur industry. By the early 20th century one of the three species was extinct and the other two were nearly hunted to extinction.

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Archer [dressed in chinchilla costume, yelling]: Chinchilladas! El sabor sensacion que esta barriendo la nacion. [sighs] Goddamn it.
Pam: Plus, the fur farms practically gave us the meat for free.
Archer: It's probably free at the glue factory. it doesn't mean people want to eat it.
Pam: Because it's broken down old horse meat. Chinchilla, on the other hand, is some of the finest fur you can buy.

Adam Reed. Archer, season 9, Danger Island: "Different Modes of Preparing the Fruit", @4:00 (2018)
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The newcomers were Colonel Lysander Stark and a short thick man with a chinchilla beard growing out of the creases of his double chin, who was introduced to me as Mr. Ferguson.

Arthur Conan Doyle. Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb
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