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ordure
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synonyms: dejecta, sir-reverence, night-soil, merd, egesta, stercorate ???
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Definition:excrement
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He had a weekly allowance, from the society, of a vessel filled with human ordure, about the bigness of a Bristol barrel.
Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)
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Covering discretion with a coat of folly,
As gardeners do with ordure hide those roots
That shall first spring and be most delicate.
William Shakespeare. The Life of Henry the Fifth (1599)
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Her lips moved. "Popé!" she whispered again, and it was as though he had had a pailful of ordure thrown in his face.
Aldous Huxley. Brave New World, p.139 (1932)
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the last Grand Duke of Tuscany [...] was so delighted with that odour, that he caused the essence of ordure to be extracted, and used it as the most delicious perfume
Tobias Smollett. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771)
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the ordures of paganism were full to the brim.
Joris-Karl Huysmans. À Rebours
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the plump brown face had been deflated and patted flat like a cow's ordurous dropping.
Maya Angelou. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969)
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