gryfon

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English

Noun

gryfon (plural gryfons)

Obsolete form of griffin.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. , London: [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
  So th'one for wrong , the other strives for right :
  As when a gryfon , seized of his pray ,
  A dragon fiers encountreth in his flight

References

“gryfon”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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