Meaning of olifant | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An ancient hunting horn, made of ivory.
   historical
2. An elephant.
   obsolete

Equivalents

Examples

“And he sang them the staves of the Olifant, the magic horn,—how Roland would not sound⟳ it in his pride, and sounded it at Turpin’s bidding, but too late[.]”

“She [Diana] hath ſent (to plague vs) a huge ſauadge Boare, / Of an vn-meaſured height and magnitude. / […] / His briſtles poynted like⟳ a range of pikes / Ranck't on his backe: his foame ſnovves vvhere he feeds / His tuskes are like⟳ the Indian Oliphants.”

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