Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The seventh month of the Attic year.
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Examples
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Ballad xvi; what a chameleon is, was thus explained in a Vocabulary of the fifteenth century: "Hic gamelion, animal varii coloris et sola aere vivit -- _a buttyrfle_" (Th. Wright, "Vocabularies," 1857, 4to, p, 220).
A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand
hernesheir commented on the word gamelion
Neither a game nor a lion. It's the name of the seventh month in the Attic year.
February 21, 2013