English

Adjective

Abyssine

1. Rare form of Abyssinian. [since the mid 17th century]
   • 1781, C. Bathurst, The Modern Part of an Universal History From the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time:

     ...expressly forbidding the Abyssine clergy, monks, and priests, to perform any priestly functions.

References

• The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 5th edition, Oxford University Press, 2003

French

Adjective

abyssine

1. feminine singular of abyssin