Definitions for griffe

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Spelling: [grif]

IPA: /grɪf/

Griffe is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 57 anagrams from letters in griffe (effgir).

Definitions for griffe

noun

1. the offspring of a black and a mulatto.
2. a person of mixed black and American Indian ancestry.
3. a mulatto, especially a woman.
4. an ornament at the base of a column, projecting from the torus toward a corner of the plinth.

Origin of griffe

1715-25, Americanism; Louisiana French American Spanish grifo curly-haired

Examples for griffe

In a few minutes there passed by us three tall men, griffe in shade.

Monsieur only goes away to wait upon the griffe, his master, when he wants more work; his griffe is a slop tailor.

But the griffe rudely jerked me to my feet again, and told me, I suppose, that I was to accompany him.

They were only signed with a griffe, or stamp, not by the King's pen and hand.

I longed to interpose with a warning word, for in the handwriting I recognized the griffe of the fatal Delilah.