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nounsorrage (uncountable)
- obsoleteuncountableThe blades of green corn, wheat or barley.
Leave us the hazel thickets set / Along the hills, leave us a month that yields / The fragile bloodroot and the violet, / Leave us the sorrage shimmering on the fields.
1880, Duncan Campbell Scott, “Youth and Time”, in Scribner's Magazine, volume 6, page 2981 more example
the sanguine hue of the poppy and the hibiscus, the gold of the daisy and dandelion, the dark green of the sorrage on either side, and the blue and purple of the blossoming mulberry and sycamore
1910, Joseph Richardson Parke, The Wizard of the Damavant: A Tale of the Crusades, page 151
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