Definition of "tigre" []

• Obsolete form of tiger. (noun)

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• "The bargeman said that in Spanish times, when a road was opened from St. Augustine on the Atlantic Coast to Pensacola on the Gulf, there were still buffalo in these savannas, and also the great jaguar, called tigre, and panthers, bears, and red wolves were still common."
• "The tigre was a smallish thing, blade under nine centimeters long, with a fat, rounded handle about the same length, making the sheathed knife easy to hide on a belt under a jacket or even a loose blouse."
• "Directly in front of him and Ned, and not more than a hundred yards away, was a great tawny and spotted jaguar -- the "tigre" or tiger of"