grolle
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Dictionnaire universel de Furetière (1690)
Historical definition of GROLLE s. f.
Oiseau du genre des corneilles, qui a le bec gros & long, & les pieds noirs. Quelques-uns disent graule ou graille. En Latin gracculus : le geay c'est galgulus. Menage tient que ce mot vient de garrula, ou de garriola, qui se trouve dans la Loy des Allemands.
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