fosse

¹

or foss

[ fos, faws ]

noun

1. a moat or defensive ditch in a fortification, usually filled with water.
2. any ditch, trench, or canal.

Fosse

²

[ fos-ee ]

noun

1. Robert Louis Bob, 1927–87, U.S. dancer, choreographer, and theater and film director.

fosse

/ fɒs /

noun

1. a ditch or moat, esp one dug as a fortification

Word History and Origins

Origin of fosse¹

1350–1400; Middle English < Middle French < Latin fossa fossa ¹

Word History and Origins

Origin of fosse¹

C14: from Old French, from Latin fossa ; see fossa ¹

Example Sentences

Last week, Magritte the bowler was competing head-to-head against fellow bowler Fosse.

From FiveThirtyEight

“I was thinking of Bob Fosse when he took Cabaret and completely changed it for film,” Marshall says.

From The Daily Beast

Like Fosse did with Cabaret, Marshall excised two major characters: the Narrator and the Mysterious Man.

From The Daily Beast

Fosse uses poetic dialogue, with rhythmic repetitions and silences, to dramatize life and loneliness.

From The Daily Beast

The playwright Jon Fosse could avoid the curse of Henrik Ibsen to become a Norwegian dramatist Nobel laureate.

From The Daily Beast

One such thing is Katie Holmes slinking around in all-black and doing her best Fosse while crooning “Hit Me With a Hot Note.”

From The Daily Beast

Martini prepared a couple of stout mules, and concealed them amongst the thickets on the opposite side of the fosse.

From Project Gutenberg

Up he jumped, ran up the rampart, and then down again into the fosse.

From Project Gutenberg

E chi ne assicura, che il Boccaccio non fosse nato nella sua villa di Corbignano quivi poco distante?

From Project Gutenberg

"Only the merchants and a few counsellors of the city were present," says Jehan de la Fosse (p. 47).

From Project Gutenberg

The price of wheat, Jehan de la Fosse tells us (p. 86) advanced to fifteen francs per "septier."

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

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