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mane [meyn] ExamplesWord Origin noun
- the long hair growing on the back of or around the neck and neighboring parts of some animals, as the horse or lion.
- Informal. (on a human being) a head of distinctively long and thick or rough hair.
Origin of mane before 900; Middle English; Old English manu; cognate with German Mähne, Dutch manen, Old Norse mǫn Related formsmaned, adjectivemane·less, adjectiveun·maned, adjective Examples from the Web for maned Historical Examples of maned
Then he jumps on the maned palfrey, which is now ready for inspection.
Chretien DeTroyes
Some are maned like lions, some have young, keen faces, but all leave an impression of familiarity upon me.
Julian Ralph.
I tell yer the maned white wolf is wiser’n most people, and but for eating his cubs, he’s nature’s gentleman.
Roger Pocock
Maned, having a mane; Mane′less, without a mane; Mane′-like (Tenn.), like a mane: hanging in the form of a mane.
Chambers’s Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M)
Various
This monster has a maned neck, resembling a horse, a back of a grey colour, the belly inclining to white.
Charles Gould
British Dictionary definitions for maned mane noun
- the long coarse hair that grows from the crest of the neck in such mammals as the lion and horse
- long thick human hair
Derived Formsmaned, adjectivemaneless, adjectiveWord Origin for mane Old English manu; related to Old High German mana, Old Norse mön, and perhaps to Old English mene and Old High German menni necklace Word Origin and History for maned mane n.
Old English manu “mane,” from Proto-Germanic *mano (cf. Old Norse mön, Old Frisian mana, Middle Dutch mane, Dutch manen, Old High German mana, German Mähne “mane”), from PIE *mon- “neck, nape of the neck” (cf. Sanskrit manya “nape of the neck,” Old English mene “necklace,” Latin monile “necklace,” Welsh mwng “mane,” Old Church Slavonic monisto, Old Irish muin “neck”).