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Meaning
noun either one of the two external openings to the nasal cavity in the nose
originFrom Middle English nostrille, from Old English nosþyrel. Compare Old Frisian nosterle (“nostril”), modern West Frisian noaster (“nostrill”). Compare also Middle Low German noster (“nostril”), from Proto-Germanic *nustriz (“nostril”). By surface analysis, nose + thirl (“hole”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0