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ordure

[awr-jer, ‑dyoor] / ˈɔr dʒər, ‑djʊər /






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“It is I, Abigail,” she says, standing there with ordure on her dress, having been booted out of a carriage.

From The New Yorker Nov. 16, 2018

Around 100,000 are expected to brave Windsor train queues, airport-style security and ceremonial horse ordure.

From The Guardian May 18, 2018

The alternative — trying to cram all this ordure back into its closet and forget we ever saw it — is, I hope, unthinkable.

From New York Times Nov. 6, 2017

Within one four-minute scene, recorded in a single shot, they argue, panic, recoil from the stench of his ordure and fall in love.

From Time Sep. 6, 2014

“Pope!” she whispered again, and it was as though he had had a pailful of ordure thrown in his face.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley




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