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- Guivre (or givre) and vouivre are french names for a type of serpentine mythical creature, by extension a dragon or equivelant to a lindworm or wyvern...
- Northern and Central Europe, such as the French guivre, and to some extent the British wyvern. The French guivre, earlier vouivre, are more dragon-like than...
- wyver (attested fourteenth century), from Anglo-French wivre (cf. French guivre and vouivre), which originate from Latin vīpera, meaning "viper", "adder"...
- heraldry Feathered Serpent, a Mesoamerican supernatural entity or deity Guivre, a legendary creature sometimes depicted as a winged serpent Lindworm, another...
- Balaur Bat (heraldry) Behemoth Dragonology Feilong (mythology) Griffin Guivre Horned Serpent Ichneumon (medieval zoology) Lambton Worm The Last Dragon...
- Kingdom of Italy (Napoleonic) Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia Flag of Milan Guivre History of Milan Basilisk Leviathan Ouroboros Symbols of Milan Germanic...
- Provence, tamed by Saint Martha. Guivre a Dragon like creature from French mythology, with a venomous bite, Guivre meaning wyvern or wyrm, or even serpent...
- supposedly composed spontaneously upon request: Related are also the French guivre/vouivre (from Old French for "snake") and English wyvern (Middle English:...
- Latin American carbuncle monster and the medieval lore that a vouivre (guivre≈wyvern) holds a carbuncle gem on its head. Friar Feijóo's Teatro crítico...
- e.g. Latin vipera (stress on /i/) vs. French vipère, learned loan, and guivre/vouivre, inherited. Borrowing from classical Latin has produced a large...