Murrey
adj, name, noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 The mulberry fruit. countable, uncountable
- 2 A tincture, the colour of mulberries, between gules (red) and purpure (purple). countable, uncountable
- 1 Of a mulberry colour. not-comparable
"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."
- 1 A surname.
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
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”).
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