ordure
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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
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
Dog-fouling is a 20th-century, quintessentially urban problem: before the arrival of the automobile, the ordure you had to worry about was from horses.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 12, 2016
She further admits that what with the puppy and the toddler, she now has to put up with a different sort of ordure than she dealt with on the show.
From Time ● Feb. 21, 2013
“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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