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Grammar : Noun |
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Phonetic Transcription : rust |
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Définition of roost
Origin :- late Old English hrost "wooden framework of a roof, perch for domestic fowl," from Proto-Germanic *hro(d)-st- (cf. Old Saxon hrost "framework of a roof, attic," Middle Dutch, Flemish, Dutch roest "roost," Old Norse hrot, Gothic hrot "roof," of unknown origin. Exact relationship and ulterior connections unknown. Extended sense "hen-house" is from 1580s. To rule the roost is recorded from 1769.
- noun perch
- noun nest
- And force is a crime in the eyes of the fools, the weak and the silly who rule the roost.
- Extract from : « The Secret Agent » by Joseph Conrad
- Yet, today, it hardly more than affords me room to roost on.
- Extract from : « Welsh Fairy Tales » by William Elliott Griffis
- Now roost on the transom, over there in the corner, Stryker, and don't move.
- Extract from : « The Black Bag » by Louis Joseph Vance
- Curses have, as the wise man said, a habit of coming home to roost.
- Extract from : « Micah Clarke » by Arthur Conan Doyle
- The kittens slept in the nest, and the chickens on the roost.
- Extract from : « Harper's Young People, August 3, 1880 » by Various
- "I ain't goin' to roost on this step till mornin'," she declared.
- Extract from : « Thankful's Inheritance » by Joseph C. Lincoln
- Why in the world do you come over here and—and go to roost by yourself?
- Extract from : « Galusha the Magnificent » by Joseph C. Lincoln
- It seemed to him that all his chickens had come home to roost.
- Extract from : « Mixed Faces » by Roy Norton
- She is black, and so tame that she comes in the house every evening for me to put her to roost.
- Extract from : « Harper's Young People, October 12, 1880 » by Various
- He flew all day and when he stopped to roost he was far ahead.
- Extract from : « Myths and Legends of the Great Plains » by Unknown
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