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Murrey

//ˈmʌɹi// adj, name, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 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."

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    The mulberry fruit. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    A tincture, the colour of mulberries, between gules (red) and purpure (purple). countable, uncountable

Etymology

Etymology 1

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”).

Etymology 2

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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