magot
Americannoun
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a Chinese or Japanese figurine in a crouching position, usually grotesque
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a less common name for Barbary ape
Etymology
Origin of magot
First recorded in 1600–10; from French, Middle French, alteration of Magog, a people seduced by Satan in Revelation 20:8; used figuratively in non-Christian medieval legends, and probably applied derisively to the apes in allusion to their supposed grotesqueness; see Magog ( def. )
Example Sentences
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But as the Barbary monkey, which the French call magot, grows, so do its fangs, claws and temper.
From Time Magazine Archive
What worries authorities is that the French magot population may be as high as several hundred thousand.
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This month, police captured an escaped magot in a Paris-area park, less than a month after a pair of free-roaming magots were captured in a park in Lyons.
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Earlier, an adult magot was found in Paris' Bois de Vincennes tethered to a tree.
From Time Magazine Archive
But it is not generally known that, on European ground, the magot is not confined solely to the Gibraltar Rock.
From Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found A Book of Zoology for Boys by Harvey, William
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