Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to or resembling garum; resembling pickle made of fish.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Pertaining to, or resembling, garum.

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  • adjective Relating to, or resembling, garum.

Etymologies

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garum +‎ -ous

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Examples

  • Last night we were talking about Episode Four, and Jean Reno, and les loups garous, and Scott said, "Please don't make the Kid Mormon," to which I could only sigh and say, Too bad, it's a done deal, I've got a whole story built around the fact that he's Mormon.

    Archive 2005-05-01 Holly 2005

  • Last night we were talking about Episode Four, and Jean Reno, and les loups garous, and Scott said, "Please don't make the Kid Mormon," to which I could only sigh and say, Too bad, it's a done deal, I've got a whole story built around the fact that he's Mormon.

    more updates from the brain that won't stop Holly 2005

  • Those whom the French called _loups-garous_ were in

    The Man-Wolf and Other Tales Erckmann-Chatrian

  • Claude Prieur's curious work is rare though not particularly valuable; it is a duodecimo printed at Louvain in 1596, and is entitled 'Dialogue de la Lycantropie ou transformation d'hommes en loups, vulgairement dit Loups-garous ....'

    The Book-Hunter at Home P. B. M. Allan

  • Of course for every case of real malady many were imputed or charged upon poor creatures, who were driven to madness by groundless charges of witchcraft and sorcery, and being _loups-garous_ in secret.

    The Man-Wolf and Other Tales Erckmann-Chatrian

  • He had caught, in the voice of the wolves, the ravening note that had made Pierrot cross himself and mutter of the loups-garous, and he crouched down on his belly at the top of the rocky mound.

    Nomads of the North James Oliver Curwood 1903

  • They are the loups - garous; in their bodies ride the spirits of devils, and there they will ride until the bodies die.

    Nomads of the North James Oliver Curwood 1903

  • With Big Pete beside me, now that I was thoroughly awake, I would fight all the werwolves of the old world and all the loup-garous of Canada.

    The Black Wolf Pack Daniel Carter Beard 1895

  • In 1579, so much alarm was excited in the neighbourhood of Melun by the increase of witches and loup-garous, that a council was held to devise some measures to stay the evil.

    Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 2 Charles Mackay 1851

  • In 1579, so much alarm was excited in the neighbourhood of Melun by the increase of witches and _loup-garous_, that a council was held to devise some measures to stay the evil.

    Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds Charles Mackay 1851

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