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  1. Any useless and cumbersome gift. In Thailand
  2. the monarch would formerly present a white
  3. elephant to a person out of favour: being the
  4. country's sacred animal, it could not be used
  5. for work, and its upkeep was ruinously
  6. expensive.
  7.