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English
Etymology
From Malay orang utan.
Noun
ourang-outang (plural ourang-outangs)
- Dated form of orangutan.
1841 March, Edgar A[llan] Poe, “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”, in George R[ex] Graham, Rufus W[ilmot] Griswold, editors, Graham’s Lady’s and Gentleman’s Magazine. , volume XVIII, number 4, Philadelphia, Pa.: George R. Graham, published April 1841, →OCLC, page 176, column 1:It was a minute anatomical and generally descriptive account of the large fulvous Ourang-Outang of the East Indian Islands.
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