ewage
Middle English
editEtymology
editFrom Old French ewage, from Latin aquāticus.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editewage
- A precious stone the colour of seawater.
- c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, section II:
- And diamantz of derrest pris · and double manere safferes / Orientales and ewages · enuenymes to destroye.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Adjective
editewage
- The colour of seawater; sea blue.
References
edit- “ewāǧe, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-30.
See also
editwhit | 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 |
Old French
editEtymology
editFrom Latin aquāticus; equivalent to ewe + -age.
Noun
editewage oblique singular, m (oblique plural ewages, nominative singular ewages, nominative plural ewage)
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