grise
noun/ɡɹiːz/
Etymology Properly the plural of gree (“a step”).
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Obsolete A step (in a flight of stairs); a degree.
- Every grise of fortune / Is smoothed by that below.c. 1605–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]: