📚 noun • entry_id 54992
peryton
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peritio
A fictional creature having the head and forelegs of a stag and the wings and hindquarters of a bird.
The peryton also makes an appearance, in a nod to its inventor, Borges — who compiled his own bestiary, “The Book of Imaginary Beings,” itself supposedly based on a long-lost medie…
Then, quite unexpectedly, when I had been staring at them for a long time, the shape of a peryton seemed to spring out as distinctly as if the bird's whole body had been powdered w…
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