ouche
English
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Etymology
From Middle English ouche, from nouche, which in phrases like a nouche was re-analyzed as an ouche. From Anglo-Norman nusche and Old French nusche (with metanalysis), from a (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "gem" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. source; compare German Nusche, Proto-Germanic *hnuts.
Pronunciation
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Noun
ouche (plural ouches)
- (poetic) A brooch or clasp for fastening a piece of clothing together, especially when valuable or set with jewels.
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book XX:
- and the horse [was] trapped in the same wyse, down to the helys, wyth many owchys, i-sette with stonys and perelys in golde, to the numbir of a thousande.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.ii:
- a Persian mitre on her hed / She wore, with crownes and owches garnished [...].
- Template:RQ:Authorized Version
- With the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings of a signet, shalt thou engrave the two stones with the names of the children of Israel: thou shalt make them to be set in ouches of gold.
- 1896, Rudyard Kipling, ‘The Story of Ung’, Seven Seas:
- There would be no pelts of the reindeer, flung down at thy cave for a gift, / Nor dole of the oily timber that strands with the Baltic drift; / No store of well-drilled needles, nor ouches of amber pale; / No new-cut tongues of the bison, nor meat of the stranded whale.
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book XX:
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