OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 36406

mahout

/məˈhaʊt/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
cornaca • mahout
An elephant trainer, keeper, and driver.
The very best of all the elephants belonged to the very worst of all the drivers or mahouts; and the superior beast's name was Moti Guj. He was the absolute property of his mahout,…
[I]n a cabinet were about a hundred little elephants made of ivory. They were of different sizes, and some had their mahouts or palanquins on their backs.
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