olifant

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An ancient hunting horn, made of ivory. historical
    — 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[.]
  2. An elephant. obsolete
    — 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.

词形变化

olifants plural

词源

From Middle English olifaunt, from Old French oliphaunt, from Latin elephantus. See elephant.
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