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grisy en · ADJ · etymology 1
Etymology
From grise + -y.
Meanings
(obsolete) Grim, grisly.
And that fourth band, which cruell battry bent, / Against the fourth Bulwarke, that is the Tast, / Was as the rest, a grysie rablement […] 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
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grisy en · ADJ · etymology 2
Etymology
From gris + -y.
Meanings
(obsolete) Grey; grizzled.
So earely, ere the grosse Earthes gryesy shade / Was all disperst out of the firmament, / They tooke their steeds, and forth upon their journey went. 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC: