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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
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Quotation dates: 1460-1643
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Ostriche, Ostrage, n. Also: ostrech(e, -rix, -ridge, -rike, orstrage. Also irregular variants: ostage, oistage. [ME. ostrice (13th c.), ME. and e.m.E. ostrich(e (14th c.), ostrige, etc., OF. ostruce, -uche.] An ostrich. Also ostrich feathers. Also attrib. with -eg and -fedder.(1) c1460 Alex. (Taym.) 13576.
Scho [the phoenix] was of bodie grete as ane ostrike c1460 Ib. 14580.
As be ane ostrech men may wele persave How it excedis in gretnes(2)c1550 Rolland Court of Venus i. 83.
With scarlet cap, quhairin was ostage thre(3) (a) c1460 Alex. (Taym.) 1288.
The armit knychtis … With ostrage fetheris buschus 1506 Orkney & Shetl. Rec. I. 248.
Three ostreche fedderis 1531 Treasurer's Accounts V. 420.
For xj ostrage fedderis to the King 1597 Bk. Rates 5.
Ostriche fedderis the dosane vj li. 1612 Bk. Rates (Halyb.) 304.
Fans of counterfute ostridge feathers(b)1538 Treasurer's Accounts VI. 405.
For v ostage fedderis to put in the … bonettis 1545 Reg. Great S. 733/2 n.
12 bussis of ostage federis, £24 1568 Treasurer's Accounts XII. 143.
Twa oistage fedderris xxx s.(4) 1589 Balcarres P. MS. V. 197.
The compter of the orstrage ege with the graithe contenit thairin 1590 Nat. Lib. MS. 34. 2. 17.
Ane ostrix eg coupe garneissit in siluer dowble ourgilt 1643 Edinburgh Testaments LX. 280.
Ane ostriche ege pryce thairof xij s.
