Meanings
plural greces · alternative griece
- obsoleteA flight of stairs.
- in pluralobsoleteSteps, stairs.
1 more example
Sir said they a merueyllous aduentur / that may not be broughte vnto none ende / but by hym that passeth of bounte and of knyhthode al them of the round table / I wold sayd Galahad that ye wold lede me ther to / Gladly sayd they / and soo ledde hym tyl a caue / and he went doune vpon gresys / and cam nyghe the tombe
1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “xviij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book XVII
Origin
- Old Frenchgrez
- Middle Englishgrece“staircase”
- Englishgrece
From Middle English grece (“staircase”), from Old French grez, greis et al., plural of gre (“gree”) taken as a collective singular.
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