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Definitions
the part of an animal that corresponds to the human buttocks
Word origin
From Middle English croupe, from Old French croupe (“rump, body”), from Old Norse kroppr (“body, trunk, mass”), from Proto-Germanic *kruppaz (“body, mass, heap, collection, crop”), from Proto-Indo-European *grewb- (“to curve, bend, crawl”). More at crupper, doublet of croupe, group, and crop.
Used in a sentence
“So light to the croup the fair lady he swung, / So light to the saddle before her he sprung.”
“The guib [a kind of antelope] is of the mean dimensions, or four feet and a half in total length, and two and a half high at the shoulders, but rather higher at the croup.”
“Curved like a stallion's croup, from dusk to dawn, / And drums upon it with his heels, whereby / Is bred the neighing thunder in the hills.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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