murrey

See also: Murrey

English

Etymology

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”).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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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Translations

mulberry — see mulberry

red colour

• Catalan: morat (ca)
• Dutch: murrey
• Finnish: murrey
• Macedonian: ^{(please verify)} дудинка (dudinka)
• Portuguese: morado (pt) m
• Spanish: morado (es)
• Swedish: mullbär (sv), mullbärsfärg c

Adjective

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.

Translations

having a murrey colour

• Bulgarian: черничев (černičev)
• German: dunkelrotbraun
• Italian: morato
• Swedish: mullbärsfärgad

Anagrams

• Rumery

Middle English

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

From Middle French moré, from Latin moratum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmuræi̯/, /ˈmureː/

Noun

murrey (uncountable)

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

Descendants

• English: murrey

References

• “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.

Adjective

murrey

1. purple-red, magenta

Descendants

• English: murrey

References

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

See also

Colors in Middle English · coloures, hewes (layout · text)

whit	grey, hor	blak
red; cremesyn, gernet	citrine, aumbre; broun, tawne	yelow, dorry, gul; canevas
grasgrene	grene
plunket; ewage	asure, livid	blewe, blo, pers
violet; inde	rose, murrey; purpel, purpur	claret