gringolée

adjective

Of e.g. the ends of a cross: terminating in snakes' heads.

OriginFrench gringolé ← Middle Dutch crinkelen ← Old Dutch *kring →
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Meanings

adjectivegringolée (not comparable)

alternative gringolé · alternative gringoly · alternative gringolly

  1. not comparablegovernmentOf e.g. the ends of a cross: terminating in snakes' heads.

Origin

  1. Proto-Germanic*kringaz
  2. Old Dutch*kring
  3. Middle Dutchcrinkelen
  4. Frenchgringolé
  5. Englishgringolée

From French gringolé (attested since 1644), related to the verb gringoler (and apparently dégringoler, attested in the form desgringueler from 1595), apparently from Middle Dutch crinkelen, from kring (“circle”), from Old Dutch *kring, from Proto-Germanic *kringaz; the semantics are obscure.

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