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† ˈentress(e Chiefly Sc. Obs.
Also 6–7 entres, 6 enteres, intres.
[app. irregularly f. enter v. + -ess, after duress, largess.]
= entrance, entry, in certain senses. a. The opportunity, right, or permission to enter. b. A means or place of entering. c. Entrance, initiation into a subject.
c1430Henryson Mor. Fab. 9 Of which the entresse was not hie nor brade. 1509Hawes Past. Pleas. (1845) 16 Into the toure for to have an intres. Ibid. xxiv. 109 The eres are but an intres To commyn wytte. ― Joyful Medit. 4 As in this arte having small intres, But for to lerne is all myn appetite. 1519W. Horman Vulg. 255 Yf ye stande to thynne: ye geue entresse to your ennemies. 1560–78Bk. Discip. Ch. Scot. (1621) 41 And to have some entres in the first rudiments of Grammer. c1565Lindesay (Pitscottie) Chron. Scot. (1728) 3 The Chancellor..gave her Entress to visit her young Son. a1572Knox Hist. Ref. Wks. 1846 I. 17 Yet is it the entress unto eternall lyif. 1600Gowrie's Conspir. in Harl. Misc. (Malh.) II. 345 The double dore..did byde them..halfe an houre..before they coulde get it broken and have entresse. a1657Sir J. Balfour Ann. Scotl. (1824–5) II. 187 Nobilitey and caualleros striuing to gett entresse to see the ceremoney. |