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gargoyle

[gahr-goil] / ˈgɑr gɔɪl /
NOUN
carved grotesque figure acting as a spout
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Mr Simpson and two colleagues have created all six characters which appear on the ITV show on Saturday night - Red Panda, Moth, Gargoyle, Sloth as well as Can of Worms and Disc Jockey..

From BBC • Jan. 3, 2026

For those who long to return to the source, The Griffin and Gargoyle, a D&D amusement center, is slated to open on the shores of Lake Geneva in 2024.

From Washington Post • Aug. 26, 2022

Regarded by some as an underground classic, it had fallen into relative obscurity by the middle 1980s, when Ms. Gordon discussed it in a long interview with Gargoyle Magazine.

From New York Times • Dec. 1, 2010

Natalie Bevan knew more or less all of the London artists and was a regular at their haunt, the Gargoyle Club in Soho.

From The Guardian • Dec. 1, 2010

Murrell and many more here are beginning to think that you are too good for a Gargoyle, though you didn't cut such a grand figure at the sand-pits.

From The Hero of Garside School by Panting, J. Harwood, (James Harwood)



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