Ossie
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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His most famous works also included the portrait Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy, of fashion designer Ossie Clark and textile designer Celia Birtwell, in 1971.
From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2026
Goldblatt was friendly with the merchant Ossie Docrat and photographed several generations of the Docrat family dealing with their displacement.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025
And having Ossie Davis play Bette’s dad, oh my goodness.
From Salon ● Apr. 8, 2025
Young won for best featured actress in a play for her performance as Lutiebelle Gussie Mae Jenkins in the revival of Ossie Davis’s satire “Purlie Victorious.”
From New York Times ● Jun. 17, 2024
As the documentary film moved forward, the voice-over of our dear family friend and loving “uncle” actor Ossie Davis delivered the eulogy from my father’s funeral in 1965.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
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