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Definition of Gurgoyles
1. gurgoyle [n] - See also: gurgoyle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gurgoyles
Literary usage of Gurgoyles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Hand-book for Visitors to Oxford by John Henry Parker, Thomas Orlando Sheldon Jewitt, John Le Keux (1875)
"attention is likely to be arrested by the very singular and grotesque gurgoyles,
or waterspouts, on the sides of the chapel, projecting from the cornice ..."
2. A History of Architectural Development by Frederick Moore Simpson (1909)
"gurgoyles VITRE. LEAD The mediaeval builders employed long stone spouts for
carrying off the rain from the gutters, and many of these ..."
3. More Tales of the Birds by William Warde Fowler (1902)
"The water that collected on the tower roof was discharged by large projecting
gurgoyles ending in the semblance of two fierce animal heads, one a griffin, ..."
4. Proceedings by Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society (1893)
"In the porch was a very nice vault, and outside were three gurgoyles, representing
musicians : a fiddler, a man with the bagpipes, and a third whose ..."
5. A Glossary of Liturgical and Ecclesiastical Terms by Frederick George Lee (1877)
"gurgoyles are commonly found in the shape of heads of monsters, dragons, ...
Some writers have regarded these gurgoyles as symbolizing heretics and others ..."
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