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Example sentences for: hoofs

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A German doctor named Lorenz Hoffman had a typical Kunst- und Wunderkammer : he owned paintings by Durer and Cranach, a skeleton of a newborn, two dozen miniature spoons hidden within a cherry pit, an armband made of elks' hoofs, mummies and various rare musical instruments.
Unless I'm missing a classical allusion, why is it not just dreamt ? The dictionary says “hoofs, rarely hooves” but only “roofs”; perhaps we tend to pronounce it as “rooves.”