ostrige
English
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editostrige (plural ostriges)
- Obsolete form of ostrich.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Against the fourth Bulwarke , that is the Taste , Was , as the rest , a grysie rablement ; Some mouth'd like greedy oystriges
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editostrige
- Alternative form of ostrich
Old French
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editostrige oblique singular, f (oblique plural ostriges, nominative singular ostrige, nominative plural ostriges)
- ostrich
- les testes saunz bacynetz covertz od chaplets od plumes de ostriges
- [Their] heads without bascinets, covered with small hats made of ostrich plumes.