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Uniped

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U´ni`ped
a.1.Having only one foot.


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Even an arthritic uniped on a ventilator would wheeze himself onto his crutches, so that the strapping captain of the ladies' lacrosse team could take his seat.
But this saga was written a full two and a half centuries after the events it purports to relate, and elsewhere shows the influence of the travel-narrative genre already popular in continental Europe (Marco Polo would dictate his Travels just a generation later), including a cameo by a favorite of bestiary writers, the fabulous uniped, at that time commonly believed to live in Africa.
 
 
 
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