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Bestiary  n.  A treatise on beasts; esp., one of the moralizing or allegorical beast tales written in the Middle Ages. "A bestiary... in itself one of the numerous mediaeval renderings of the fantastic mystical Zoology."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Bestiary" Quotes from Famous Books



... there is a fourteenth century linen cloth of German workmanship, upon which occurs the legend of the unicorn, running for protection to a maiden. An old Bestiary describes how the unicorn, or as it is there called, the "monocerus," "is an animal which has one horn on its head: it is caught by means of a virgin." The unicorn and virgin, with a hunter in pursuit, is quite a favourite bit of symbolism in ...
— Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages • Julia De Wolf Addison



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