gargoyle
GAHR-goyl · noun
Origin
From Old French gargouille, itself from Latin, with the earliest recorded French spelling, gargoule, dated to 1294.
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Gargoyle is a doublet of gargle, meaning the two words descend from the same root but arrived in English by different routes.
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