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the consecrated bread or wafer of the Eucharist, host.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Scotland, obsolete
Topics: Catholicism, Christianity
Examples
- 1694 August 9, James Drummond, 4th Earl of Perth, Letter XII, in 1845, William Jerdan (editor), Letters from James, Earl of Perth, Lord Chancellor of Scotland, &c, to His Sister, Countess of Erroll, and Other Members of His Family, page 40, This Hostie* is carryed about the streets in procession : and really it is very fine to see the solemnity.
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An air hostess.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, informal
Examples
- 2011, Les Hawkins, Great Australian Fly-Fishing Stories, Chapter 20, HarperCollins Publishers Australia, unnumbered page, The cute hostie at the check-in for Kamchatka accepted a note the Russian Ambassador in Canberra had given me about excess luggage and gave me a smile rather than a bill.
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Borrowed from Middle French hostie, from Latin hostia.
From hostess + -ie (“diminutive suffix”).
