Gibbon

Definitions

1. A surname.
2. A small ape of the family Hylobatidae with long limbs, which they use to travel through rainforests by swinging from branch to branch.

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Examples

“'[…] Suppose⟳ that in years to come⟳, when the Church's troubles seem to be over, there should come⟳ an apostate of my own⟳ trade⟳, a false historian, with the mind⟳ of Cicero or Tacitus and the soul of an animal,' and he nodded towards the gibbon who fretted his golden chain and chattered for fruit.”

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