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Noun
[edit]guivre (plural guivres)
- (heraldry, mythology) A serpentine creature, variously one with no limbs (like a simple snake, but often depicted swallowing someone), or with wings and only two legs (a wyvern).
- 1984, Dragons, Time Life Medical:
- The guivre / The legless and wingless guivre would have seemed a mere serpent, albeit an immensely powerful one, except for its massive dragon head, horned and bearded. Guivres liked to live in forests and wells—anywhere near water […]
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old French guivre (whence also vouivre), from Latin vīpera. Related to English wyvern.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]guivre f (plural guivres)
References
[edit]- “guivre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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