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Fer-de-Lance
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fer-de-lance

  [fer-dl-ans, -ahns]
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–noun
a large pit viper, Bothrops atrox, of tropical America.
Origin:
1875–80; < F: lit., spearhead
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fer de lance 
large poisonous snake of Amer. tropics, 1880, from Fr., "lance-head," lit. "iron of a lance." So called for its shape.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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