Definition of "oliphaunts" [oliphaunts]

• Plural form of oliphaunt. (noun)

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• "My second choice was in honor of one of my favorite animals, the elephant, also known as oliphaunts, heffalumps, and Mr. Snuffleupacuses."
• "For it suddenly became apparent amid the din of heroic fantasy dynasties falling like arrow-riddled oliphaunts to the earth, and the tinkling of the faeries in the forest, that there had always been among us other peoples who now, as some perceived it, came out of an empty landscape, to whom most of us had been blind, and made themselves unblinkingly known."
• "It is guarded by high walls, and both the east and west gates are flanked by sculptures of kneeling oliphaunts, massive beasts with trunks upraised, twice as tall as a man."