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noun large African black-and-white carrion-eating stork; its downy underwing feathers are used to trim garments
originFrom French marabout, from Portuguese maraboto, marabuto, from Moroccan Arabic مْرَابِط (mrabeṭ) (standard Arabic مُرَابِط (murābiṭ, “soldier stationed in fortified outpost”)).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0