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Ostmen, n. pl. Hist.|ˈəʊstmən|
Also 7 Oost-, Oust-.
[a. ON. Austmenn, pl. of Austmaðr, men of the East; latinized Ostmanni.]
The name given in Ireland and Iceland to invaders or settlers from Denmark and Norway; esp. the Northmen or ‘Danes’ in Ireland and their descendants settled in some towns on the East coast of that country.
[a1222Giraldus Topogr. Hiberniae iii. xliii, Dicti sunt autem Ostmanni lingua ipsorum, corrupto quodam Saxonico, quasi Orientales homines.] c1425Eng. Conq. Irel. 82 He..slogh four knyghtes that weren ouer ham, & four hundret ostmen. 1612Davies Why Ireland, etc. (1787) 80 A charter..granted by Henry the Second, to certain Oostmen, or Easterlings, who were inhabitants of Waterford, long before Henry the Second attempted the conquest of Ireland. 1807Sir R. C. Hoare Tour Irel. 251 The Ostmen took their revenge by setting fire to the abbey. 1842S. C. Hall Ireland II. 347 Numberless proofs occur of these being the work of the Ostmen.
Hence Ostˈmannic a., pertaining to the Ostmen.
1843S. C. Hall Ireland III. 194 Asserting that they were of Ostmanic construction. |