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Word: barghest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1944-1944
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...high pine-forested ridges and fed by a brawling, canyon-hemmed river. Summer cottages dot its beaches, and beef cattle graze in a Western-story valley below. The star-spangled nights at Payette Lake are beautifully clear; only the city-bred get any feel of the banshee, the barghest, the ouphe (rhymes with out) or other beasts prominent in monster husbandry. So Idahoans discounted serpent talk. And the serpent himself, a shy thing, appeared only at rare intervals, always at twilight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IDAHO: Slimy Slim | 8/21/1944 | See Source »

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