Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
maumet .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A puppet; a doll; originally, an idol, because in the Middle Ages it was generally believed that the Mohammedans worshiped images representing Mohammed.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Archaic form of
mammet .
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Examples
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"Yea," said he, "or it might better be said that she is their goddess, their mawmet, their devil, the very heart and soul of their wickedness.
The Well at the World's End: a tale William Morris 1865
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Henry was the Moldwarp cursed of God's own mouth, and that they were the Dragon, the Lion, and the Wolf which should divide the realm between them, by the deviation, not divination, of that mawmet Merlin. "
Henry of Monmouth, Volume 1 Memoirs of Henry the Fifth James Endell Tyler 1820
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