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View synonyms for orts
orts
/ ɔːts /
plural noun
- archaic.sometimes singular scraps or leavings
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Word History and Origins
Origin of orts1
C15: of Germanic origin; related to Dutch oorete, from oor- remaining + ete food
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Example Sentences
Even an elderly woman, the mother of five or six children, cheerfully partakes of the residue, as if it were the orts of gods.
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Other orts and ends of rabble made up the procession, which with antic and grimace marched about the village and neighbourhood.
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Since printing throughout the title Orts, a doubt has arisen in my mind as to its fitting the nature of the volume.
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Then having eaten up all that food, he besmeared his body with the unclean orts and went away as he had come.
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So they tells her the message, and then she begins making orts and crosses like on her hands.
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