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grisy en · ADJ · etymology 1

Etymology

From grise + -y.

Meanings

  1. (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

  1. (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:

Forms

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