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▪ I. murrey, n.1 and a. Now only Hist. and arch.|ˈmʌrɪ|
Forms: 5 murreye, morrey(e, morreey, 5–6 murre, 5–8 murray, 5–9 murry, 6 mour(r)ey, -ye, -ie, -eie, -aie, morra, 7 muroy, 5– murrey.
[a. OF. moré adj. and n., morée fem. n., murrey colour, murrey-coloured cloth, ad. med.L. mōrātus, mōrāta, f. L. mōrum mulberry.]
A. n.
1. A colour like that of the mulberry; a purple-red or blood-colour. Also, cloth of this colour.
In some modern books ‘murrey’ is given as the name of a heraldic tincture; but Leigh and Guillim mention it only as the popular name for the colour heraldically termed sanguine.
[1380in Test. Karleol. (1893) 138, j Kirtill cum capucio de murre.] c1412Hoccleve De Reg. Princ. 695 And where be my gounes of scarlet, Sanguyn, murreye, & blewes sadde & lighte. c1461E.E. Misc. (Warton Club) 90 Ȝoure flote is made for ȝoure sangweyns and also for ȝour violettes and ȝoure violettes sadder thanne ȝoure morreys. 1462Paston Lett. II. 103 Your son wolle have to hys jakets murry and tany. c1483Caxton Dialogues 14/38 Entrepers moret, Sad blew morreey. 1530in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxford (1880) 68 A Goune of mourrey. 1587Harrison England ii. xxi. 211/1 The die thereof contendeth with skarlet, murreie, and purple. 1640Habington Edw. IV 165 Five hundred Commoners in murrey receiv'd him. 1657R. Ligon Barbadoes 68 The rinde smooth, with various greens, interlac'd with murries, yellowes, and faint carnations. 1745P. Thomas Jrnl. Anson's Voy. 93 Their [the Vicunnas] colour is almost Murrey. 1834J. R. Planché Brit. Costume xiii. 200 Murrey and blue were the colours of the house of York.
¶2. Used allusively for murex. rare—1.
1579Twyne Phisicke agst. Fort. i. xx. 26 For thee the Tyrian Murrey swimmeth, or Purple fishe.
B. adj. Of a purplish-red colour; murrey-coloured. † murrey kersey: used as a term of contempt for a woman.
1403Mann. & Househ. Exp. (Roxb.) 216 For ij. peyre off morrey hosyn ffor my mastyr, xiiij.s. 1599B. Jonson Ev. Man out of Hum. iv. vi, I had on a gold cable hatband..which I wore about a murrey French hat. 1607Middleton Michaelm. Term i. i, Let her pass me; I'll take no notice of her,—scurvy murrey kersey. 1625in Rymer Foedera (1726) XVIII. 240 One Plate of Goulde,..with a Case of Murrey Velvet. 1677Grew Colours Plants i. §15 The larger Buds are purple or murrey, and the open Flowers, blew. 1840H. Ainsworth Tower of London i. i. 4 Doublets of murrey and blue cloth. 1847G. Hume Firstlings of Fancy 17 The sharpened verge of a dark murrey cloud.
†b. Of the complexion: Sanguine. Obs. rare—1.
1623Cockeram 11, A murrey Complexion.
†c. In the name of a variety of nectarine.
1664Evelyn Kal. Hort., Aug. 72 Nectarines. The Muroy Nectarine, Tawny, Red Roman, [etc.]. 1685–90Temple Ess. Gard. Wks. 1720 I. 183 The only good Nectorins are the Murry and the French... Of the Murry there are several Sorts, but being all hard, they are seldom well ripened with us. 1767Abercrombie Ev. Man his own Gard. (1803) 674/1 Nectarines..Elruge, Temple, Murrey, Brugnion.
▪ II. † ˈmurrey, n.2 Cookery. Obs.
In 5 murreye, morreye.
[App. an Eng. subst. use of OF. moré (see murrey n.1) in the sense flavoured with mulberries.]
A stew or ‘compote’ of veal, etc., prepared with mulberries.
c1430Two Cookery-bks. 28 Murreye.—Take Molberys, & wryng hem þorwe a cloþ e; nym Vele [etc.]. Ibid., A rede Morreye.—Take Molberys, and wrynge a gode hepe of hem þorw a cloþ; nym Vele [etc.].
▪ III. murrey
variant of moray. |