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† murrey colour
= murrey n.1 1.
1537Bury Wills (Camden) 133 A cote of murre color. 1573Art of Limming (1588) 8 If thou wilt put to a good quantity of Synapour a little portion of blacke..you shall make thereof a sanguine or Murrye colour. 1786W. Gilpin Lakes Cumbld. (1808) II. xvii. 39 A species of white lychen..which..had been found very useful in dying a murray-colour. 1849M. P. Merrifield Orig. Treat. Paint. in Oil I. Introd. vi. 186 Morello di ferro, probably some ore of iron, burnt until it assumes a morello or murrey colour.
Hence murrey-coloured a.
1657W. Coles Adam in Eden xl. 80 Small purple or murrey coloured Flowers. c1714Pope, etc. Mem. M. Scriblerus i. vi. (1741) 24 A waistcoat of murrey-colour'd sattin. 1886T. Hardy Mayor Casterbr. ix, Henchard's house was..fronted with murrey-coloured old brick. |