tarand

But what we find most surprising in this tarand is, that not only its face and skin, but also its hair could take whatever colour was about it.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

But what we find most surprising in this tarand is, that not only its face and skin, but also its hair could take whatever colour was about it.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

A tarand is an animal as big as a bullock, having a head like a stag, or a little bigger, two stately horns with large branches, cloven feet, hair long like that of a furred Muscovite, I mean a bear, and a skin almost as hard as steel armour.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

I have found here a Scythian tarand, an animal strange and wonderful for the variations of colour on its skin and hair, according to the distinction of neighbouring things; it is as tractable and easily kept as a lamb.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

I have found here a Scythian tarand, an animal strange and wonderful for the variations of colour on its skin and hair, according to the distinction of neighbouring things; it is as tractable and easily kept as a lamb.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

A tarand is an animal as big as a bullock, having a head like a stag, or a little bigger, two stately horns with large branches, cloven feet, hair long like that of a furred Muscovite, I mean a bear, and a skin almost as hard as steel armour.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

But what we find most surprising in this tarand is, that not only its face and skin, but also its hair could take whatever colour was about it.

Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518

A tarand is an animal as big as a bullock, having a head like a stag, or a little bigger, two stately horns with large branches, cloven feet, hair long like that of a furred Muscovite, I mean a bear, and a skin almost as hard as steel armour.

Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518

He also caused to be bought three fine young unicorns; one of them a male of a chestnut colour, and two grey dappled females; also a tarand, whom he bought of a Scythian of the Gelones 'country.

Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518

To Gargantua, his father, he sent the tarand covered with a cloth of satin, brocaded with gold, and the tapestry containing the life and deeds of Achilles, with the three unicorns in friezed cloth of gold trappings; and so they left

Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518