Giraffedom
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 The state of being a giraffe, or of belonging to the world of giraffes; giraffes collectively. uncountable
"But was there, in cold fact, any simple justification, any more than there TV as for the fabulous jewel in the peacock's feather, for that singular creation, that extravagance of angles, that triangular elongation coated with crazy paving, the modern and somewhat modest descendant of a long experiment in giraffedom?"
Example
More examples"But was there, in cold fact, any simple justification, any more than there TV as for the fabulous jewel in the peacock's feather, for that singular creation, that extravagance of angles, that triangular elongation coated with crazy paving, the modern and somewhat modest descendant of a long experiment in giraffedom?"
Etymology
From giraffe + -dom.
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