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▪ I. ‖ oˈrage
[a. F. orage (ɔraʒ):—popular L. aurātic-um, f. aura breeze: see -age.]
†1. A violent or tempestuous wind; a storm. Also fig. Obs.
c1477Caxton Jason 56 b, Whiche knightes beyng..upon the see, were sore vexid..with great orages and tempestes. 1483― Gold. Leg. 137/2 Sodenly descended fro heuen suche a tempest of rayne and of orage that it couerd alle the montayne. 1611Cotgr., Orage, a storme, tempest, orage. a1734North Lives (1826) I. 183 His gains..were much greater by his practice; for that flowed in upon him like an orage. ― Exam. iii. viii. §63 (1740) 632 But there was then enough of the Church and Loyal Party..to stem that Orage of Faction.
2. An organ-stop designed to produce an imitation of the noise of a tempest.
1891in Cent. Dict.
▪ II. orage
obs. form of orach. |