ostrige
English
Noun
ostrige (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
Anagrams
Middle English
Noun
ostrige
- alternative form of ostrich
Old French
Alternative forms
- ostriz
Noun
ostrige 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.