Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete An elephant.
- noun An ancient horn, made of ivory.
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- noun obsolete An
elephant . - noun obsolete An
ancient horn , made ofivory .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Listen for the word "molen" (=mill) and "olifant" (no translation needed, right?)
Utopiales Poster, Part 7: The Painting James Gurney 2009
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Also, Dutch 'volgen' has no ordinary use 'to understand' or to 'hear', and I doubt whether anyone in the 13th century had ever seen an 'olifant' in this part of Europe...
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Like a man with an obsession I turned back again and again to the hope-despair see-saw of rescue, one minute convinced that E.an and Conrad would have sent out sorties the moment they found me gone, the next that they would simply have cursed my rudeness and set off by themselves towards the north, where E.an would become so engrossed with olifant that E. Lincoln would fade from his mind like yesterday's news.
Smokescreen Francis, Dick 1972
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And that olifant, he will go straight away into the bush.
Smokescreen Francis, Dick 1972
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Owing to an olifant waving its ears at us within cricket ball distance we did not get back to Skukuza before the gates shut.
Smokescreen Francis, Dick 1972
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And that olifant, he will go straight away into the bush.
Smokescreen Francis, Dick 1972
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Owing to an olifant waving its ears at us within cricket ball distance we did not get back to Skukuza before the gates shut.
Smokescreen Francis, Dick 1972
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Like a man with an obsession I turned back again and again to the hope-despair see-saw of rescue, one minute convinced that E.an and Conrad would have sent out sorties the moment they found me gone, the next that they would simply have cursed my rudeness and set off by themselves towards the north, where E.an would become so engrossed with olifant that E. Lincoln would fade from his mind like yesterday's news.
Smokescreen Francis, Dick 1972
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Then, counting over his great victories, he placed it and the olifant beneath him, and committed his soul to the Father, who sent down his angels to bear it to Paradise.
National Epics Kate Milner Rabb 1901
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The French rode on, answering the sound of the olifant; the emperor rode, filled with grief and rage; the barons spurred their horses, but in vain.
National Epics Kate Milner Rabb 1901
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