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Marabout

noun
1.
Large African black-and-white carrion-eating stork; its downy underwing feathers are used to trim garments.  Synonyms: Leptoptilus crumeniferus, marabou, marabou stork.





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... the Royal Navy at thirteen, served on several warships, and accompanied the Prince of Wales to India, in 1875, as Naval Aide-de-Camp. At the bombardment of Alexandria he was in command of the gunboat Condor, and his gallant conduct in bearing down on the Marabout batteries and silencing guns immensely superior to his own was so conspicuous that the Admiral's ship signalled: "Well done, Condor!" In 1884 he assisted Lord Wolseley in ...
— The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 28, April 1893 - An Illustrated Monthly • Various
... been entrusted with a trading expedition as far as Dongola, carrying merchandise and exchanging it for gum, and ostrich and marabout feathers. He had been allowed a little venture on his own account, and had embarked it all in the latter article of commerce—marabout feathers—and had been rather lucky in his bargain. On returning to Cairo he expected to go ...
— For Fortune and Glory - A Story of the Soudan War • Lewis Hough


Words linked to "Marabout" :   genus Leptoptilus, marabou stork, marabou, stork, Leptoptilus crumeniferus, Leptoptilus


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