ostrige

English

Noun

ostrige (plural ostriges)

1. 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

1. Alternative form of ostrich

Old French

Alternative forms

• ostriz

Noun

ostrige oblique singular, f (oblique plural ostriges, nominative singular ostrige, nominative plural ostriges)

1. 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