• Muscovy

    Full definition of muscovy

    Noun

    muscovy

    (plural muscovies)
    1. Muscovy duck
      • 1906, A. C. Laut, Pathfinders of the West Chapter , The clerks have rejected it as much as they liked; I am told that they admitted somewhere about six thousands of muscovy; during our administration there were 28 or 30 thousands received, which is a large difference without taking into account other qualities, and all this does not give the French much trouble, and at the most for the year we were not informed.
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