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Meanings of foss in English

Russian
free and open source software
Portuguese
software livre e de código aberto
Spanish
software libre y de código abierto
Catalan
programari lliure i de codi obert
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Software that is both free (as in freedom) and open source.

free and open source software
Usage of foss in English
1
The woeful wood is a garland round about it, even as the dismal foss to that.
The Divine Comedy, Volume 1, Hell
2
For such cases, the English have always enjoyed the right of the foss, the fork, and chains.
The Man Who Laughs: A Romance of English History
3
They had strolled along the edge of the foss, and a pit yawned upon the right of them.
The Last Galley; Impressions and Tales
4
The balcony was built out from a brick wall which fell sheer to the bottom of the foss.
The Broken Road
5
And there is evermore great wind in that foss, that stirreth evermore the gravel, and maketh it trouble.
The Travels of Sir John Mandeville
6
The white-plumed hat of De Bours had been struck from his head in the struggle, and had fallen into the foss.
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 26: 1577, part III
7
She is certainly abroad, with her two last year's cubs; and their traces have been found just above, near the foss.
Feats on the Fiord / The third book in "The Playfellow"
8
But again did Olympian Jove rouse the strength of the Trojans; and they drove back the Greeks straight to the deep foss.
The Iliad of Homer (1873)
9
So Gygra's daughter tramped along in the middle of the river, till the foss steamed and the storm whirled round about her.
Weird Tales from Northern Seas
10
Shere Ali leaned his elbows on the balustrade, and gazing across the foss to the Taragarh Hill, hummed to himself a tune.
The Broken Road
11
On the land-side it was surrounded by high walls and a double foss, which protected it against any hostile invasion from Brabant.
Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland : with ...
12
The hole or foss was narrow, about five feet deep and seven feet long, and looked, I imagined, curiously like a grave.
A Crystal Age
13
Thus ever more and more shallow became that blood, until it cooked only the feet: and here was our passage of the foss.
The Divine Comedy, Volume 1, Hell
14
The din of the foss is deafening; the rush of the water as you stand with uncertain foothold over the deep dark swirl bewildering.
Lines in Pleasant Places: Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler
15
At the foot of the foss the little road curved round with the stream, making a sharp bend at the tail of the rapid.
Lines in Pleasant Places: Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler
16
This then was the world in which I moved and had my being, within the limits of the old rat-haunted foss among the enchanted trees.
Far Away and Long Ago: A History of My Early Life