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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A West African antelope (
Cephalophus rufilotus ) of a deep bay color, with a broad dorsal stripe of black; -- called alsoconquetoon .
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Den grimme side af ‘indhold’ | Digitale medier, hÃ¥b & falliterklà ¦ ringer
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Landing upon the main shore, they met "grimme and stout" savages, who took them to the King of Accomac, and him they found civil enough.
Pioneers of the Old South: a chronicle of English colonial beginnings Mary Johnston 1903
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[14] Some such word as _grame_, or _grimme_, seems needed for the alliteration.
Elene; Judith; Athelstan, or the Fight at Brunanburh; Byrhtnoth, or the Fight at Maldon; and the Dream of the Rood Anglo-Saxon Poems Anonymous 1878
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De der EmmEssEmm vil da heller ikke andet end trykke latterlige - sikkert fede og grimme - menneskers uforstandige kritik af verdens tilstand.
Blogbot - forsiden 2008
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- grimme, 1848. heoro-hōcihte, adj., _provided with barbs, sharp like swords _: instr. pl.
Beowulf Robert Sharp 1879
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- grimme, 1848. heoro-hôcihte, adj., _provided with barbs, sharp like swords _: instr. pl.
Beowulf Robert Sharp 1879
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"Mr. Whitfield called it The Coquetoon." --Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, Part XVIII, 1850, p. 122.
Quotation found under the entry for Cepahalophus coronatus, the red-crowned bushbuck, a West African antelope. I prefer the term coquetoon.
April 19, 2011