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

egriots, goiters, goitres, goriest

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.

Descendants

→ English: ostrich
French: autruche

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