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murrey

noun, adj — 3 senses

murrey

noun

/ˈmʌɹi/

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”).

1

The mulberry fruit.

2

Government, Heraldry, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Monarchy, Nobility, Politics A tincture, the colour of mulberries, between gules (red) and purpure (purple).

murrey

adj

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”).

1

Of a mulberry colour.

  • 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.1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:

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