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[guh-zel]

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noun, plural -zelles, (especially collectively) -zelle.

any small antelope of the genus Gazella and allied genera, of Africa and Asia, noted for graceful movements and lustrous eyes.

Origin:
1575–85; < French; Old French gazel < Arabic ghazāla

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ga·zelle·like, adjective

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gazelle (ɡəˈzɛl)

—n , pl -zelles, -zelle
	any small graceful usually fawn-coloured antelope of the genera Gazella and Procapra, of Africa and Asia, such as G. thomsoni (Thomson's gazelle)

[C17: from Old French, from Arabic ghazāl]

ga'zelle-like

—*adj*

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gazelle

1600, from Fr. gazelle, from N.African pronunciation of Arabic ghazal.

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