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grivet

[ griv-it ]

noun

  1. a small Abyssinian monkey, Cercopithecus aethiops, with a grayish back, gray tail, black face, and dark extremities.


grivet

/ ˈɡ°ùɪ±¹Éª³Ù /

noun

  1. an E African variety of a common guenon monkey, Cercopithecus aethiops, having long white tufts of hair on either side of the face Compare green monkey vervet
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of grivet1

First recorded in 1855–60; origin uncertain
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of grivet1

C19: from French, of unknown origin
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Following the surprise announcement that the head of the Large Client division, Jacques Ripoll, was leaving to join renewable energy group Eren, the group announced a rejig of its top management on Wednesday with the appointment of two new deputy CEOs: CFO Jérôme Grivet and Olivier Gavalda, head of the Paris region branch.

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Credit Agricole’s CFO Jerome Grivet told analysts the bank was on track to reach its 2022 targets, including a 5 billion euros net profit.

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They included Dana the squirrel monkey, Mrs Grivet the African green monkey and an escaped emu that died during an attempt to recapture it.

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Suzanne's hapless police officer husband, Olivier, and the family friend Grivet supplied the evening's fleeting moments of amusement, thanks, respectively to Zeffin Quinn Hollis and John Matthew Myers.

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GRIVET, a monkey, Cercopithecus sabaeus, of the guenon group, nearly allied to the green monkey.

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