Crossword-Solution: GARGOUILLE
We have 6 clues for the answer “GARGOUILLE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| FRENCH gargoyle | 1 answer |
| FRENCH spout | 1 answer |
| FRENCH throat | 1 answer |
| FRENCH water spout | 1 answer |
| WATERING spout | 7 answers |
| Spout | 60 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RETAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with GARGOUILLE (5)
That of Saint-Romain, is much more remarkable, for the destruction of heathen temples, and the famous miracle of the _Gargouille_, which, gave birth to the privilege not less famous, which the chapter possessed of setting at liberty a prisoner every year.
Amongst others Saint-Romain is represented making himself master of the _Gargouille_, and forcing the Seine to return to its bed.
One represents _the consecration of Saint-Romain as bishop_; in another, _he overthrows the pagan temples_; farther on, is _the miracle of the dragon or Gargouille_; next to it, is the procession of the shrine to obtain the deliverance of a prisoner, a ceremony which was instituted after the miracle of which we have already spoken.
Romain of Rouen slew there the Dragon Gargouille, which is but the name of a draining-gutter after all, and hence the grotesque waterspouts of our churches are mostly dragons.
The French have also in this sense _gargoulette_, and a word _gargouille_, our medieval _gurgoyle_; all derivations from _gorga_, _garga_, _gorge_, 'the throat,' found in all the Romance tongues.