Flaubert (then a young child) travelled from Rouen to see her. La mode à la girafe swept the nation; hair was arranged in towering styles, spotted fabrics...

the 1590s. The modern English form developed around 1600 from the French girafe. "Camelopard" /kəˈmɛləˌpɑːrd/ is an archaic English name for the giraffe;...