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alant

alant is the alternative form of alaunt.

Meaning of alaunt

Noun

alaunt (plural alaunts)

  1. A domesticated dog of an extinct breed related to the modern bulldog and mastiff, or modern breeds created in imitation of it.
    • Les alans gentilz si doivent estre fez et taillez droitement comme un levrier de toutes choses fors de la teste, qui doit estre grosse et courte.1916, Albert Stanburrough Cook, “Appendix B: Chaucer's Alaunts”, in The Last Months of Chaucer's Earliest Patron, translation of Déduits de la Chasse des Bestes Sauvaiges et des Oiseaulx de Proye by...

Forms of alant

pluralalants

Questions about alant

What is alant the alternative form of?
Alant is the alternative form of alaunt.

Words near alant in the dictionary

  1. alannas
  2. Alano Español
  3. alanopine
  4. alanosine
  5. alans
  6. alant
  7. alantin
  8. alantol
  9. alantolactone
  10. alants
  11. alanyl

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