griffe (plural griffes)
A claw-like ornament at the base of a column.
griffe (plural griffes)
(chiefly, US, dialectal, dated or historical) A person of mixed (black and white) race, especially the offspring of a mulatto (person of mixed black and white ancestry) and a person of fully black ancestry.
• (person of mixed race): see list in mulatto
Source: Wiktionary
Griffe, n. Etym: [F.]
Definition: The offspring of a mulatto woman and a negro; also, a mulatto. [Local, U. S.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
24 December 2024
(adverb) in an intuitive manner; “inventors seem to have chosen intuitively a combination of explosive and aggressive sounds as warning signals to be used on automobiles”
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
