griffin
noun
a fabled monster, usually having the head and wings of an eagle and the body of a lion.
griffinhood
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a word derived from
griffin.
Example Sentences
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The spectacled people embalmed in secretariats alone among Anglo-Indians continue to see the gay visions of griffinhood.
From Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series by George Robert Aberigh-Mackay
