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noun a spout that terminates in a grotesquely carved figure of a person or animal
noun an ornament consisting of a grotesquely carved figure of a person or animal
originFrom Old French gargouille, from Latin. Doublet of gargle. The Académie Française suggests the first attestation as gargoule in 1294.
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