greesings

English

Etymology

Compare gree and grice.

Noun

greesings pl (plural only)

  1. (obsolete) Steps.
    • 1563 March 30 (Gregorian calendar), John Foxe, Actes and Monuments of These Latter and Perillous Dayes, […], London: […] Iohn Day, […], →OCLC:
      The next day, being the 14th of January, all the visitors (only Christopherson elect of Chichester, excepted) came to the King's college; where, first going into the church, and there making their prayers at the greesings, they so proceeded into the stalls, there sitting all the mass time […]

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