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alt. (context archaic and historical English) elephant n. (context archaic and historical English) elephant
Usage examples of "oliphaunt".
It is carved from the tusks of Old Mlima, the oliphaunt who bore my great-great-grandfather to war against the Tigrati insurrection.
They put houses and towers on the oliphauntses backs and all, and the oliphaunts throw rocks and trees at one another.
But it is all so confusing, for such a lot of other things seem to have got mixed up with it: Aragorn's affairs, and the White Council and Gondor, and the Horsemen, and Southrons, and oliphaunts â did you really see one, Sam?
But it is all so confusing, for such a lot of other things seem to have got mixed up with it: Aragorn's affairs, and the White Council and Gondor, and the Horsemen, and Southrons, and oliphaunts - did you really see one, Sam?