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English
Noun
Abyssin (plural Abyssins)
- Rare form of Abyssinian. [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
- Rare form of Abyssinian. [1]
1789, Jerónimo Lobo, A voyage to Abyssinia:Here we lost a good old Abyssian convert, a man much valued in his order...
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “Abyssin”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.
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