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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
ordure
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A peeling notice warned us not to throw ordure.
▪ Even the customary dung heaps and piles of ordure had been taken away.
▪ Tallis smelled blood and the more offensive stink of ordure.
▪ The reek of ordure voided from all his clothing.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ordure

Ordure \Or"dure\, n. [F. ordure, OF. ord filthy, foul, fr. L. horridus horrid. See Horrid.]

  1. Dung; excrement; f[ae]ces.
    --Shak.

  2. Defect; imperfection; fault. [Obs.]
    --Holland.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
ordure

late 14c., from Old French ordure "filth, uncleanliness" (12c.), from ord, ort "filthy, dirty, foul," from Latin horridus "dreadful" (see horrid).

Wiktionary
ordure

n. excrement; dung.

WordNet
ordure

n. solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels [syn: fecal matter, faecal matter, feces, faeces, BM, stool, dejection]

Usage examples of "ordure".

In the washroom another deracinating spectacle: marks and pfennigsgood tenderstuck to the wall with human ordure.

Why did one of my alembiques strike my head, and my plaster Baphomet, it falls to the floor, and that a memento of my late father, and on the wall three writings appear in red, ordures I cannot repeat, hein?

These ordures are rapidly depraving the public taste, and lessening its relish for sound food.

In the washroom another deracinating spectacle: marks and pfennigs—good tender—stuck to the wall with human ordure.

There was a noise of carillons and thunderbolts, a buffeting wind, blinding flashes of light that penetrated my closed lids, smells of ordure and ozone and doping perfume.

There was a noise of carillons and thunderbolts, a buffeting wind, blinding flashes of light that penetrated my dosed lids, smells of ordure and ozone and doping perfume.

Broad streaks of ordure, like a giant’s fingerpainting, ran crazily up the walls.

Above, bats stirred like the flying rats that they were and dropped their own crunchy ordure over the whole.

The main buildings were set back from the dust and ordure of the streets, visible only through a high gate.

Moinet as a ``bon petit coeur,'' is enveloped in the political ordure slung by venal pamphleteers at the masterful men of her race.

And ever the greater merit shall he have who restrains the wicked enkindlings of the ordure of this sin.