ordure
Americannoun
noun
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excrement; dung
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something regarded as being morally offensive
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of ordure
1300–50; Middle English < Old French, equivalent to ord filthy (< Latin horridus horrid ) + -ure -ure
Example Sentences
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“It is I, Abigail,” she says, standing there with ordure on her dress, having been booted out of a carriage.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 16, 2018
The alternative — trying to cram all this ordure back into its closet and forget we ever saw it — is, I hope, unthinkable.
From New York Times • Nov. 6, 2017
Dog-fouling is a 20th-century, quintessentially urban problem: before the arrival of the automobile, the ordure you had to worry about was from horses.
From The Guardian • Apr. 12, 2016
Within one four-minute scene, recorded in a single shot, they argue, panic, recoil from the stench of his ordure and fall in love.
From Time • Sep. 6, 2014
“Pope!” she whispered again, and it was as though he had had a pailful of ordure thrown in his face.
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
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