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What are ostents? (From Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice)

Your ostents are expressions.

Be merry, and employ your chiefest thoughts / To courtship and such fair ostents of love / As shall conveniently become you there.

Salerio, from Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice; Act III, Scene 8.

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