bestiaries
- plural of bestiary.
Example Sentences
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The design may have come from medieval bestiaries, which were "the origin for JK Rowling's book Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them", said Helen Geake.
From BBC ● Feb. 17, 2024
Perhaps you’re familiar with Ramparts magazine’s bestiaries, which lampooned the political follies of the 1960s, or “Sorel’s Unfamiliar Quotations” in The Atlantic Monthly.
From New York Times ● Nov. 24, 2021
Medieval bestiaries were books that served as compendiums of creatures both fantastic and real.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2019
She is a magpie, plucking language from myriad arenas: bestiaries, business documents, tourist pamphlets.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 13, 2016
In this sense, bestiaries are part of our inheritance.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
