gibbon

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noun order of mammals

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Word Origin & History

1770, from French gibbon (18c.), supposedly from a word in the French colonies of India but not found in any language there. Brought to Europe by Marquis Joseph-François Dupleix (1697-1763), French governor general in India 1742-54. The surname is Old French Giboin, from Frankish *Geba-win "gift-friend," or in some cases a diminutive of Gibb, itself a familiar form of Gilbert.

Example Sentences for gibbon

Gibbon said of Lady Elizabeth that she was the most alluring of women.

She began her daily hour of Gibbon after breakfast with great zeal.

Gibbon and Doubleday somehow deployed and seized a portion of the orchard.

Doubleday and Gibbon suffered fearfully, and Ewell and Taliaferro suffered.

We have only to consider the absurdity of a handy-volume Gibbon or a folio Lamb.

Gibbon and Mommsen are the great examples to which he points.

If you want to know how rapidly the Empire went down, ask Gibbon.

Gibbon ignored the Virgin, because in 1789 religious monuments were out of fashion.

An excellent edition of Gibbon was one of the first results.

After he had finished, one of his friends reproached him with flattering Gibbon.

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primate

primates

Synonyms for gibbon

anthropoid