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noun English historian best known for his history of the Roman Empire (1737-1794)
noun smallest and most perfectly anthropoid arboreal ape having long arms and no tail; of southern Asia and East Indies
originReborrowing from French gibbon, folk etymology (compare English Gibbon) ultimately from a Northern Aslian language (compare Batek kəboɲ).
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