Olifant

Olifant

Olifant or Oliphant can refer to:

*An archaic spelling of elephant.
*In "Chaucer's Tale of Sir Topas" in "The Canterbury Tales", there is a vicious, stone pelting giant named Sir Olifaunt.
*Lord Oliphant, a peerage title in Scotland.
*Laurence Oliphant (1829-1888), author and mystic.
*Laurence Oliphant (1691-1767), Jacobite army officer.
*Margaret Oliphant Oliphant, novelist and historical writer.
*Mark Oliphant, an Australian physicist.
*olifant (instrument), a wind instrument of the Middle Ages, made from elephants' tusks.
*oliphaunt, a name used by J.R.R. Tolkien's hobbits in "The Lord of the Rings" to describe a monstrous elephant-like creature.
*Pat Oliphant is an American editorial cartoonist.
*Thomas Oliphant is an American journalist.
*Olifant tank, a South African version of the British Centurion tank.
*Oliphant, a Finnish band.

ee also

*Olyphant


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  • olifant — [ ɔlifɑ̃ ] n. m. VAR. anc. oliphant • 1080; altér. de éléphant ♦ Cor d ivoire, taillé dans une défense d éléphant, dont les chevaliers se servaient à la guerre ou à la chasse. L olifant de Roland. ● olifant ou oliphant nom masculin (altération de …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • olifant — OLIFÁNT s. n. instrument muzical medieval din familia cornului, de origine orientală, confecţionat din colţi de elefant. (< fr. olifant) Trimis de raduborza, 15.09.2007. Sursa: MDN …   Dicționar Român

  • olifant — òlifant m DEFINICIJA glazb. pov. srednjovjekovni signalni rog od slonovače vrlo prodorna zvuka, dio viteške odjeće ETIMOLOGIJA fr. olifant ← stfr.: slonovača …   Hrvatski jezični portal

  • Olifant — Ol i*fant, n. [OF.] 1. An elephant. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] 2. An ancient horn, made of ivory. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Olifant — (holl.), so v.w. Elephántenpapier …   Pierer's Universal-Lexikon

  • Olifant [1] — Olifant, im Altfranzösischen soviel wie Elfenbein, dann Horn aus Elfenbein, besonders das berühmte, weit schallende Heerhorn Rolands, in das er in der Todesnot beim Überfall von Ronceval stieß (nach der Erzählung des Rolandsliedes; vgl. Artikel… …   Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon

  • Olifant [2] — Olifant (Elefantenfluß), Name von vier Flüssen in der Kapkolonie; 1) (O. River West) entspringt in der Division Tulbagh, östlich vom Großen Winterhoek, und mündet, 128 km lang, in den Atlantischen Ozean. – 2) (O. River East) entspringt in der… …   Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon

  • Olifant — Olĭfant (altfrz., d. i. Elefant), das weithinschallende Horn Rolands; auch das größte Papierformat …   Kleines Konversations-Lexikon

  • Olifant [2] — Olifant, Elefantenfluß, r. Hauptnebenfluß des Limpopo in Südafrika, durchbricht das Kathlambagebirge …   Kleines Konversations-Lexikon

  • Olifant —  Pour l’article homonyme, voir char Olifant.   Pour l’article homophone, voir Oliphant …   Wikipédia en Français

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