hippodame

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hippodame

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By confusion with hippotame.

noun hippodames

  1. obsolete, rare A sea horse or hippocampus. on every syde / They trembling stood, and made a long broad dyke, / That his swift charet might have passage wyde / Which foure great Hippodames did draw in temewise tyde.

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@misc{hippodame_2026,
  title = {hippodame},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/hippodame},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}