Negretti

• negretti, Negrette, negrette

Uncertain. Probably from Negretti, the name or title of the family which owned the strain.

Negretti (plural Negretti or Negrettis)

1. A sheep of a Merino strain of Spanish origin, known for having very fine wool.
   • 1871, C. C. Hutchinson, Resources and Development of Kansas: Fifteen Years Experience, Topeka, KS: C. C. Hutchinson, pages 131–132:

     If a man with large means intends to raise for wool merely, or principally, I leave it open to him to select Negrettes or Combwools, as both will pay with necessary care; and although I belong to the old merino school, I am last to deny the qualities of a Cotswold.

• “Negretti”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

• Ettinger, ringette