sorrage

English

Etymology

Compare sorrel.

Noun

sorrage (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) The blades of green corn, wheat or barley.
   • 1880, Duncan Campbell Scott, “Youth and Time”, in Scribner's Magazine‎^[1], volume 6, page 298:

     Leave us the hazel thickets set / Along the hills, leave us a month that yields / The fragile bloodroot and the violet, / Leave us the sorrage shimmering on the fields.

   • 1910, Joseph Richardson Parke, The Wizard of the Damavant: A Tale of the Crusades, page 151:

     the sanguine hue of the poppy and the hibiscus, the gold of the daisy and dandelion, the dark green of the sorrage on either side, and the blue and purple of the blossoming mulberry and sycamore

References

• “sorrage”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Sagrero