ewage

Middle English

Etymology

From Old French ewage, from Latin aquāticus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛu̯adʒ(ə)/

Noun

ewage

1. 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

ewage

1. The colour of seawater; sea blue.

References

• “ewāǧe, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-30.

See also

Colors in Middle English · coloures, hewes (layout · text)

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

Old French

Etymology

From Latin aquāticus; equivalent to ewe +‎ -age.

Noun

ewage oblique singular, m (oblique plural ewages, nominative singular ewages, nominative plural ewage)

1. waterway; channel