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. 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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