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ostiary

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7 lettersPronunciation /ˈɒsti.əɹi/Part of speech nounSorted aiorstyStarts with OEnds with Y0 clues
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Definitions

  1. someone who guards an entrance

Word origin

Borrowed from Latin ostiārius, from ostium (“door, entrance”). See usher, which may be a doublet.

Used in a sentence

  • the river of Nilus hath seven ostiaries, that is, by seven channels disburdened itself into the sea
  • So arrayed I stepped at last from my door and was saluted as before by my monstrous ostiaries.

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