Abyssin

See also: abyssin

English

Noun

Abyssin (plural Abyssins)

  1. Rare form of Abyssinian. [since the mid 17th century][1]
    • 1789, Jerónimo Lobo, A voyage to Abyssinia:
      The Abyssian takes the honey, without failing to leave part of it for the bird...

Adjective

Abyssin

  1. Rare form of Abyssinian. [since the mid 17th century][1]
    • 1789, Jerónimo Lobo, A voyage to Abyssinia:
      Here we lost a good old Abyssian convert, a man much valued in his order...

References

  1. 1 2 Lesley Brown (editor), The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 5th edition (Oxford University Press, 2003 [1933], →ISBN)

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