Definitions for fosse

fosse fosse

Spelling: [fos, faws]
IPA: /fɒs, fɔs/

Fosse is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 32 anagrams from letters in fosse (efoss).

Definitions for fosse

noun

  1. a moat or defensive ditch in a fortification, usually filled with water.
  2. any ditch, trench, or canal.
  3. Robert Louis ("Bob") 1927–87, U.S. dancer, choreographer, and theater and film director.

Origin of fosse

1350-1400; Middle English Middle French Latin fossa fossa1

Examples for fosse

He leaped from the wall into the fosse, a height of thirty feet and upwards.

Until he, Ercwlf, Descended into the fosse of the rampart, And was covered with sand.

The Count is at this moment cooling his heels in the fosse cell.

I want to be the next Mr. fosse, and put musicals together and create my own movement.

Then she returned, took her banner, and stood on the brink of the fosse.

He looked over the railing of the fosse to find the old silence undisturbed.

One such thing is Katie Holmes slinking around in all-black and doing her best fosse while crooning “Hit Me With a Hot Note.”

fosse uses poetic dialogue, with rhythmic repetitions and silences, to dramatize life and loneliness.

Standard in hand, the Maid leaped into the fosse near the pig market.

Like fosse did with Cabaret, Marshall excised two major characters: the Narrator and the Mysterious Man.

Word Value for fosse
Scrable

8

Words with friends

8

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