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ˈoliphant arch.
Also 3–5 olifa(u)nt.
[a. OF. olifant: see elephant.]
Obsolete form of elephant, occasionally retained by modern writers as a historical spelling in sense ‘horn or trumpet of ivory’: see elephant 4 b.
[c1205Lay. 23778 He [a shield] wes al clane of olifantes bane. ]13..K. Alis. 1182 To mouth he set his olifaunt. c1489Caxton Blanchardyn xlv, Many an horne, many an olyphaunt, & many a claryon & trompettes were blowen. 1851E. J. Millington tr. Didron's Chr. Iconogr. I. 56 note, Roland..in his distress sounds the oliphant. 1855tr. Labarte's Arts Mid. Ages 10 As a specimen of the sculptured ivory of the xivth century, we give..a large oliphant or warder's horn. 1888Sat. Rev. 24 Mar. 351/1 There were two ivory horns (or Oliphants, as they used to be called). |