† gerfauntn.
Obsolete. rare.
A giraffe.
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c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (1839) xxviii. 289 In Arabye thei [orafles] ben clept Gerfauntz [Roxb. gyrfauntz]..he hath the necke a 20 Cubytes long.
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