murrey
See also: Murrey
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English murrey, murreye, from Middle French moré, morée, from Latin moratum, morata, from neuter and feminine respectively of moratus (“mulberry-colored”), from morum (“mulberry”) + -atus (“-ate”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
murrey (countable and uncountable, plural murreys)
- The mulberry fruit.
- (heraldry) A tincture, the colour of mulberries, between gules (red) and purpure (purple).
- murrey:
Translations edit
mulberry — see mulberry
red colour
Adjective edit
murrey (not comparable)
- Of a mulberry colour.
- 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, published 1959, →OCLC:
- This coat continued to button, up the front, with nine buttons, various now in shape, and colour, but without exception of such exceptional size as to remain, once buttoned, buttoned. Aloft in the flowerhole brooded the remains of a factitious murrey chrysanthemum.
Translations edit
having a murrey colour
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Anagrams edit
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Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Middle French moré, from Latin moratum.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
murrey (uncountable)
Descendants edit
- English: murrey
References edit
- “murrei, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-30.
- “murrei, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-30.
Adjective edit
murrey
Descendants edit
- English: murrey
References edit
- “murrei, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-30.
See also edit
whit | grey, hor | blak |
red; cremesyn, gernet | citrine, aumbre; broun, tawne | yelow, dorry, gul; canevas |
grasgrene | grene | |
plunket; ewage | asure, livid | blewe, blo, pers |
violet; inde | rose, murrey; purpel, purpur | claret |
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