Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Pertaining to or resembling garum; resembling pickle made of fish.
Wiktionary
- adj. Relating to, or resembling, garum.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Pertaining to, or resembling, garum.
Etymologies
- garum + -ous (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Last night we were talking about Episode Four, and Jean Reno, and les loups garous, and Scott said, "Please don't make the Kid Mormon," to which I could only sigh and say, Too bad, it's a done deal, I've got a whole story built around the fact that he's Mormon.”
“Of course for every case of real malady many were imputed or charged upon poor creatures, who were driven to madness by groundless charges of witchcraft and sorcery, and being _loups-garous_ in secret.”
“Those whom the French called _loups-garous_ were in”
“Claude Prieur's curious work is rare though not particularly valuable; it is a duodecimo printed at Louvain in 1596, and is entitled 'Dialogue de la Lycantropie ou transformation d'hommes en loups, vulgairement dit Loups-garous ....”
“He had caught, in the voice of the wolves, the ravening note that had made Pierrot cross himself and mutter of the loups-garous, and he crouched down on his belly at the top of the rocky mound.”
“They are the loups - garous; in their bodies ride the spirits of devils, and there they will ride until the bodies die.”
“With Big Pete beside me, now that I was thoroughly awake, I would fight all the werwolves of the old world and all the loup-garous of Canada.”
“In 1579, so much alarm was excited in the neighbourhood of Melun by the increase of witches and loup-garous, that a council was held to devise some measures to stay the evil.”
“In 1579, so much alarm was excited in the neighbourhood of Melun by the increase of witches and _loup-garous_, that a council was held to devise some measures to stay the evil.”
Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
“People talk about loups-garous to give a name to their fears, but it is child snatchers who snatch children, not evil spirits," said Lafalaisse.”
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Pickled foods.
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