Olifant
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Olifant or Oliphant can refer to:
- In "Chaucer's Tale of Sir Topas" in The Canterbury Tales, there is a vicious, stone pelting giant named Sir Olifaunt.
- Lord Oliphant, a peerage title in Scotland.
- a Main Battle Tank in South Africa derived from the British Centurion.
- Mark Oliphant, an Australian physicist.
- olifant (instrument), a wind instrument of the middle ages, made from elephants' tusks.
- oliphaunt, a name used by J.R.R. Tolkien's hobbits in The Lord of the Rings to describe a monstrous elephant-like creature.
- Pat Oliphant is an American editorial cartoonist.
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