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caoutchouc

[ kou-chook, kou-chook ]

caoutchouc

/ -ˈtʃʊk; kaʊˈtʃuËk; ˈkaÊŠtʃuËk; -tʃʊk /

noun

  1. another name for rubber 1
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˜yÐÄvlog 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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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of caoutchouc1

C18: from French, from obsolete Spanish cauchuc, from Quechua
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In the 1700s, a French explorer brought the name "caoutchouc" from a local language: it meant "weeping wood".

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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.

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

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

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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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