murrey

From Middle English murrey, murreye, from Middle French moré, morée, from Latin moratum, morata, from neuter and feminine respectively of moratus (“mulberry-colored”), from morum (“mulberry”) + -atus (“-ate”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmʌɹi/
• Homophones: Moray, Murray
• Rhymes: -ʌɹi

murrey (countable and uncountable, plural murreys)

1. The mulberry fruit.
2. (heraldry) A tincture, the colour of mulberries, between gules (red) and purpure (purple).

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murrey (not comparable)

1. Of a mulberry colour.
   • 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, published 1959, →OCLC:

     This coat continued to button, up the front, with nine buttons, various now in shape, and colour, but without exception of such exceptional size as to remain, once buttoned, buttoned. Aloft in the flowerhole brooded the remains of a factitious murrey chrysanthemum.

• Rumery

• morre, morrey, morry, murreiȝ, murray, murre, murreye, murry

From Middle French moré, from Latin moratum.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmuræi̯/, /ˈmureː/

murrey (uncountable)

1. purple-red, magenta (colour)
2. magenta fabric
3. A dish containing mulberries for flavour

• English: murrey

• “murrei, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-30.
• “murrei, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-30.

murrey

1. purple-red, magenta

• English: murrey

• “murrei, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-30.