Osset

American  

[os-it] / ˈɒs ɪt /

Also Ossete

noun

1. a member of an Aryan people of Ossetia whose religion combines features of Islam and Christianity.

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Osset British  

/ ˈɒsɪt /

noun

1. a member of an Iranian people living in S Russia and N Georgia, chiefly in Ossetia in the Caucasus

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Example Sentences

From Merton College 5 5 0 The Rev. Mr. Kilner 1 1 0 The Rev. Mr. Stillingfleet 1 1 0 The Rev. Mr. Blaney 1 1 0 Mrs. Kent 2 2 0 Mr. Archdale Rook 1 1 0 Mr. Thomas Plater 1 1 0 Mr. William Fox 1 11 6 Mr. Samuel Fox 1 11 6 Mrs. Prime 5 3 Collected at Burford, per Mr. Darby 1 9 1 Ditto at Whitney, per ditto 1 10 0 OSSET.

From Project Gutenberg

Vladikavkaz was founded in 1785 on the site of an Osset village, and became the headquarters and chief military dépôt of the Russians during their lengthened struggle for supremacy with the stout-hearted hillmen; it is now the chief town and seat of government for the province of Kuban, and still an important military station.

From Project Gutenberg

A superstitious age was prepared to reverence, as the testimony of Heaven, the preternatural cures, which were performed by the skill or virtue of the Catholic clergy; the baptismal fonts of Osset in Btica, which were spontaneously replenished every year, on the vigil of Easter; and the miraculous shrine of St. Martin of Tours, which had already converted the Suevic prince and people of Gallicia.

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