rory
adjEtymology Unknown
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Obsolete Of gaudy, tasteless, or unsubtle colors.
- Related terms
- rory-cum-tory, rory-tory, tory-rory
rory
adjUK /ˈɹɔː.ɹi/ · US /ˈɹɔɹ.i/
Etymology From Latin rōs / rōris (“dew”).
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Obsolete Covered by dew.
- On Libanon at first his foot he set, And shook his wings with rory May-dew wet.1600, Edward Fairfax, transl., Jerusalem Delivered, i, 14:
- [...] rory end to the regginbrow was to be seen ringsome on the aquaface.1939 May 4, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, London: Faber and Faber Limited, →OCLC; republished London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1960, →OCLC, part I, page 3: