Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A group of diving birds: an inexact synonym of Pygopodes or Urinatores.
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Examples
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I saw some sphynges, some raphes, some ounces, and some cepphi, whose fore-feet are like hands and their hind-feet like man's.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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I saw some sphynges, some raphes, some ounces, and some cepphi, whose fore-feet are like hands and their hind-feet like man’s.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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I saw some sphynges, some raphes, some ounces, and some cepphi, whose fore-feet are like hands and their hind-feet like man’s.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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