Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Basketwork.
- noun A place where osiers are grown.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An osier bed.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
osier bed .
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Examples
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The clouds in the nursing home corridors, sky-open springlike after a bathe and forgotten, in a frayed blue dressing-gown beside an osiery.
Archive 2010-04-01 David McDuff 2010
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The clouds in the nursing home corridors, sky-open springlike after a bathe and forgotten, in a frayed blue dressing-gown beside an osiery.
The house of forgetting David McDuff 2010
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Didn’t you spot her in her windaug, wubbling up on an osiery chair, with a meusic before her all cunniform letters, pretending to ribble a reedy derg on a fiddle she bogans without a band on?
Finnegans Wake 2006
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