Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the side of the snout ribbed; rib-faced, as a baboon. See
mandrill , and cut underbaboon .
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Examples
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General H.H. Wotherspoon, president of the Army War College, has a pet rib-nosed baboon, an animal of uncommon intelligence but imperfectly beautiful.
INTERNET WIRETAP: The Devil's Dictionary, by Ambrose Bierce (1993 Edition) 1911
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A rival attraction already occupies the field in the person of a Tabreez Turkish luti with a performing rib-nosed mandril and a drum.
Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama Thomas Stevens 1894
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While D'Arcy was amusing himself with a blue-faced rib-nosed baboon,
Aylwin Theodore Watts-Dunton 1873
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I believe that this is true of this population; for the characteristic marks of a low, apish cunning and stealing, betray the paternity: but so low are they in all better qualities, that, if their respectable old ancestor the rib-nosed baboon, should be called to see them, he would exclaim, with uplifted paws, 'Alas, how degenerate is my breed!'
The flush times of Alabama and Mississippi : a series of sketches, 1853
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This rib-nosed baboon, or mandrill, as he is often called, obtained great renown; and among other distinguished personages who wished to see him was his late majesty King George the Fourth.
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