'ostrich' is a correct and usable word in written English
You can use it to refer to the large, flightless bird found in Africa. For example: "The ostrich is the tallest bird in the world."
There are half a dozen tables in the back where speciality burgers of bison or ostrich can be washed down with IPAs and bitters both local and imported.
We urge everyone to follow the example of Newquay's ostrich, pull their heads out of the sand, and get on with the job of tackling carbon pollution".
The icing on the cake for all the Armani, Prada, Tod's... in the window of a small shop called Borgo Albino sat a pink, slim, ostrich skin belt with diamante buckle.
An article from 1996 does a good job of summarising the principles of this movement: don't act like an ostrich and ignore the future by putting your head in the sand; don't act like a fireman and just respond to threats to your future; and don't focus just on insurance against for the future.
Outside there's a shaded chill-out area with cushions and a telescope (night skies are dazzling) and the fields are home to donkeys and an ostrich – a lone survivor from Balthasar's former life as an ostrich farmer.
As Olaf Koens, a Russia correspondent for the Dutch newspaper Volkskrant, puts it:[W]e pretended nothing serious was happening in Russia a masterpiece of ostrich policy toward the outside world.
But apart from some ostrich products on sale in hard-currency shops in Pyongyang, there is little sign that North Korea's ostrich industry is pulling in the money.North Korea had also hoped to raise some hard currency by attracting foreign tourists to a display of synchronised dancing and gymnastics by some 100,000 performers and schoolchildren.
The algorithm then trawls through Tesco's purchasing data to see what other products (staples such as milk and bread aside) tend to wind up in the same shopping baskets as ostrich burgers do.
Governments at the moment are still ostrich-like, thinking, lets just go back to the same old ways of printing money, lots of quantitative easing.
The website of Britain's SIB carries detailed alerts about scams from foreign-exchange frauds to bogus ostrich-farming investment schemes.
After a panic at the turn of the millennium about the impact on their industry of online shopping, bricks-and-mortar stores settled into making only modest alterations to their business model or, ostrich-like, trying to ignore it.
