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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Quotation dates: <1375, 1375-1599
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Grece, n.2 Also: greice, griece, greis, gres(e. [Usual Scottish form of ME. gris(e (a 1300), grys(e, gryce, OF. gris, subst. use of adj. gris (see Grece a.). Cf Gryce.] A kind of grey fur.(a) 1374 Exchequer Rolls II. 466.
Computat … in empcione de c bakkis de grece a1400 Legends of the Saints vii. 764.
Furryt wele in wayre & grece 1429 Acts II. 18/1.
That na man sal weir … furringis of mertrikis, funȝeis, puray na grece … bot allanerly knychtis and lordis 1455 Ib. 43/2.
Ane mantill of reid … furryt with cristy gray, grece [1681 griece], or purray 1493 Halyb. 37.
Bocht in Handwarp … 150 fyn gres, … 2 mantyllis of gres 1503 Treasurer's Accounts II. 237.
For thre tymir of fyne pured grece to the cuffis [etc.] … of the said goun … For thre tymir of othir cours grece to lyn the said goun, within(b) 1495 Treasurer's Accounts I. 226.
Item, ij mantillis of greis … to lyne the sammyne [counterpane] 1508 Rentale Dunkeld. 3.
Twa mantillis of gray greis, four pund greit 15.. Clariodus v. 1934.
Meliades … cled in goune of velvote lustillie, Furrit with greice
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