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orts

/ ɔːts /

plural noun

Origin of orts¹

C15: of Germanic origin; related to Dutch oorete, from oor- remaining + ete food

Even an elderly woman, the mother of five or six children, cheerfully partakes of the residue, as if it were the orts of gods.

Other orts and ends of rabble made up the procession, which with antic and grimace marched about the village and neighbourhood.

Since printing throughout the title Orts, a doubt has arisen in my mind as to its fitting the nature of the volume.

Then having eaten up all that food, he besmeared his body with the unclean orts and went away as he had come.

So they tells her the message, and then she begins making orts and crosses like on her hands.

April 17, 2024axolotl

[ak-suh-lot-l ]

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