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English
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”).
Pronunciation
Noun
murrey (countable and uncountable, plural murreys)
- The mulberry fruit.
- (heraldry) A tincture, the colour of mulberries, between gules (red) and purpure (purple).
- murrey:
Translations
mulberry — see mulberry
red colour
Adjective
murrey (not comparable)
- Of a mulberry colour.
- 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, published 1959, →OCLC:
- 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.
Translations
having a murrey colour
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Anagrams
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Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle French moré, from Latin moratum.
Pronunciation
Noun
murrey (uncountable)
Descendants
- English: murrey
References
- “murrei, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-30.
- “murrei, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-30.
Adjective
murrey
Descendants
- English: murrey
References
- “murrei, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-30.
See also
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 |
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