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MARCH 22, 2017
ortnoun [awrt]
1. a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. Usually, orts.
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6 words that can ruin your sentenceQUOTES... the poor thought that the
rich were entirely in the right of it to lead a jolly life; besides,
their feasting caused a multiplication of orts, which were the
heirlooms of the poor.
-- George Eliot, Silas Marner, 1861 ORIGINOrt entered English in the
1400s. Low German ort and early Dutch oorete are cognates.
