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| —n | |
| any small agile arboreal anthropoid ape of the genus Hylobates, inhabiting forests in S Asia | |
| [C18: from French, probably from an Indian dialect word] | |
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Ed gibbon
is always a great word to know.
So is quincunx. Does it mean:
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
| a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare. |
| Gibbon (ˈɡɪbən) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | Edward. 1737--94, English historian; author of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776--88), controversial in its historical criticism of Christianity |
| 2. | Lewis Grassic (ˈɡræsɪk), real name James Leslie Mitchell. 1901--35, Scottish writer: best known for his trilogy of novels Scots Quair (1932--34) |
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gibbon
1770, from Fr., supposedly from a word in the Fr. colonies of India but not found in any language there. Brought to Europe by Marquis Joseph-François Dupleix (1697-1763), Fr. governor general in India, 1742-54. The surname is O.Fr. Giboin, from Frank. *Geba-win "gift-friend," or in some cases
a dim. of Gibb, itself a familiar form of Gilbert.
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