Olifant
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Olifant is a noun meaning (historical) An ancient hunting horn, made of ivory.
Meaning
(historical) An ancient hunting horn, made of ivory.
More Meanings
- (obsolete) An elephant.
Example Sentences
And he sang them the staves of the Olifant, the magic horn,—how Roland would not sound it in his pride, and sounded it at Turpin’s bidding, but too late[.]
She [Diana] hath ſent (to plague vs) a huge ſauadge Boare, / Of an vn-meaſured height and magnitude. / […] / His briſtles poynted like a range of pikes / Ranck't on his backe: his foame ſnovves vvhere he feeds / His tuskes are like the Indian Oliphants.
Word Forms
- olifants
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include oliphant, elephant, oliphaunt, elephantophile, elephantoid, elephantid.
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