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Tusked sea mammal
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narwhal
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Word definitions for narwhal in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Narwhal \Nar"whal\ (n[aum]r"hw[.a]l), n. [Sw. or Dan. narvhal; akin to Icel. n[=a]hvalr, and E. whale. the first syllable is perh. from Icel. n[=a]r corpse, dead body, in allusion to the whitish color its skin. See Whale .] [Written also narwhale and narwal ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Narwhal was a whaling ship , a barque which was part of the Arctic fleet between 1883 and 1907.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1650s, from Danish and Norwegian narhval , probably a metathesis of Old Norse nahvalr , literally "corpse-whale," from na "corpse" + hvalr "whale" (see whale ). So called from resemblance of its whitish color to that of dead bodies. The first element is ...
Usage examples of narwhal.
Peottre Blackwater accompanied him, his narwhal an ivory carving on a gold chain around his neck.
How then can he offer the head of a creature that does not belong to him as payment to the Blackwater mothershouse of the Narwhal Clan?
The Otter had rebuked Elliania as a daughter of the Blackwater family of the Narwhal Clan.
Was the Blackwater family of the Narwhal Clan intent on kindling war between the Six Duchies and the Out Islands?
It is the pleasure of Clans Boar and Narwhal to provide for you as generously as you did for our folk when we visited your Six Duchies.
Greetings finished, the women of the Narwhal mothershouse led the Prince and his party away.
Two young men wearing the Narwhal badge nodded us past the gate in the wall.
The Narwhal Clan folk parted to make way for us to assume our correct positions.
The people who crowded the rest of the room were almost entirely Narwhal Clan, as evinced by their jewelry, clothing adornments, and tattoos.
The exceptions seemed to be almost entirely males standing alongside women, and were probably men who had married into the clan or were partners in a less formal arrangement with a Narwhal woman.
The only unifying theme to the beaded or embroidered or woven patterns of their dress seemed to be the brightness of the colors and the narwhal motif.
Then four Narwhal clansmen carried a wizened little woman down the stairs and into the hall.
She wore a red robe and the narwhal motif was repeated in tiny ivory buttons sewn all over it.
The Great Mother of the Narwhal Clan leaned forward, her gnarled hands gripping the twisted wood of the chair arms.
Women came to stand around her, and there was a formalized greeting that passed between every woman of the Narwhal Clan and Elliania.