oystre
English
Noun
oystre (plural oystres)
- (rare) Obsolete form of oyster.
- 1585, Thomas Harriot, quoted in Steve Nicholls, Paradise Found: Nature in America at the Time of Discovery, University of Chicago Press →ISBN, page 73
- Oystres, some very great and some small, some round and some of a long shape .
- 1626, Sir Edward Dering, quoted in "Bill of Fare of 1626", Notes and Queries (14 December 1815), page 99
- pickled oystres a barrell ... 1s. 6d.
- 1851, Punch, Volume XX., page #230:
- Well could he talke of fasting and penaunce
- To Maides, between the figures of the daunce ;
- And from the hollow world within the cloistre
- Threaten to shut himself, as in an oystre.
- 1585, Thomas Harriot, quoted in Steve Nicholls, Paradise Found: Nature in America at the Time of Discovery, University of Chicago Press →ISBN, page 73
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Etymology
From three separate sources: Old English oster, Anglo-Norman oistre, and Latin ostrea, which the other two are ultimately from. The Latin is from Ancient Greek ὄστρεον (óstreon).
Pronunciation
Noun
oystre (plural oystres or oystryn)
- An oyster or a similar shellfish.
Descendants
References
- “oistre (n.)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-09-30.
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