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Webster 1913 Edition
Ordure
1.
Dung; excrement; faeces.
Shak.
2.
Defect; imperfection; fault.
[Obs.]
Holland.
Webster 1828 Edition
Ordure
OR'DURE
,Noun.
Definition 2024
ordure
ordure
English
Noun
ordure (plural ordures)
- Excrement; dung.
- 1988, Anthony Burgess, Any Old Iron
- The bowels and bladder collapsed, sheets and mattress had to be burnt at the bottom of the back garden. The body, having vulgarly shed its ordures, now turned into an ordure itself.
- 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room, Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 99
- Only Madame herself seeing Jacob out had about her that leer, that lewdness, that quake of the surface (visible in the eyes chiefly), which threatens to spill the whole bag of ordure, with difficulty held together, over the pavement.
- 1988, Anthony Burgess, Any Old Iron
Translations
excrement, dung
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