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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 25 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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OGRE , the name in See also:

fairy tales and folk-See also:lore of a See also:malignant. monstrous See also:giant who lives on human flesh. The word is See also:French, and occurs first in See also:Charles See also:Perrault's Histoires ou conies du temps passe (1697). The first See also:English use is in the See also:translation of a French version of the Arabian Nights in 1713, where it is spelled hogre. Attempts have been made to connect the word with Ugri, the racial name of the See also:Magyars or Hungarians, but it is See also:woods.

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