See elephanty on Wiktionary
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"ref": "2014, David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks, Sceptre, →ISBN:",
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"ref": "2018, Daniel Cardinal, Gerald Jones, Jeremy Hayward, AQA A-level Philosophy Year 2: Metaphysics of God and Metaphysics of Mind, Hodder Education, →ISBN:",
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"ref": "2019, Rivka Galchen, Rat Rule 79: An Adventure, Restless Books, →ISBN, page 19:",
"text": "He gave a proud, elephanty bow and set the umbrella down.",
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"ref": "2020, Kid Normal and the Final Five, Bloomsbury Children’s Books, →ISBN:",
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