douc

douc noun

1. an Old World monkey, Pygathrix nemaeus, of SE Asia, with a bright yellow face surrounded by tufts of reddish-brown fur, a white tail, and white hindquarters: one of the langurs

Word Origin for douc C18: from French, from the native name Examples from the Web for douc Historical Examples of douc

To Cochin-China also belongs the Douc, a very large species, remarkable for their coat of many colours.

The Desert World

Arthur Mangin

These large apes are the ouanderou and the douc; to them, therefore, we must refer the production of the bezoar.

Buffon’s Natural History. Volume IX (of 10)

Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon