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Definition of 'ouche'English
Alternative forms
* nouch
* ouch
* owch
Noun
( en-noun)
(poetic) A brooch or clasp for fastening a piece of clothing together, especially when valuable or set with jewels.
* 1485 , Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur , Book XX:
- and the horse [was] trapped in the same wyse, down to the helys, wyth many owchys , i-sette with stonys and perelys in golde, to the numbir of a thousande.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.ii:
- a Persian mitre on her hed / She wore, with crownes and owches garnished [...].
* 1611 , Bible , Authorized Version, Exodus XXVIII.11:
- With the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings of a signet, shalt thou engrave the two stones with the names of the children of Israel: thou shalt make them to be set in ouches of gold.
* 1896 , Rudyard Kipling, ‘The Story of Ung’, Seven Seas :
- There would be no pelts of the reindeer, flung down at thy cave for a gift, / Nor dole of the oily timber that strands with the Baltic drift; / No store of well-drilled needles, nor ouches of amber pale; / No new-cut tongues of the bison, nor meat of the stranded whale.
Similar to 'ouche'oxeye, ooze, ogee, oche, ouse, ouchie, ousie, ouze, oose, oxshoe, oukie, oxiae, oxeae
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