red deer

Hist.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1†

See whitetail deer; also, the skin of this animal.

Quotations

1584

There is greate store of stagges, redd dere, fallowe dere, beares, and other suche like sorts of beasts. . . .

1749

There are now no Deer-Skins now imported, except a few Moose, Elk, and Red Deer dreess'd.

1898

In the short season of fifteen days, from the first to the fifteenth of November, it is wonderful how many red deer are killed in Ontario.

1916

But the red man no longer set up his tepee in these secluded groves; the wapiti and red deer had fled to the north never to return. . . .

2n.

the North American elk or stag, Cervus canadensis.

See: wapiti

<i>c</i>1665

They weare waited on by a sort of yong men, bringing down dishes of meate of Oriniacke, of Castors, and of red deer mingled with some flowers.

1793

They are not so large as the elk of the Peace River, but are the real red deer, which I never saw in the north.

1857

It was not until we came to the west of San Joseph that we found Red Deer (wapite), and then very scarce.

1952

There were also red deer or biche. . . .

1966

Red Deer was named by settlers who mistook the elk for a species of Scottish red deer.