murrey

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murrey¹

  • /ˈmʌɹi/

Sounds like Moray, Murray · Rhymes with -ʌɹi

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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”).

noun murreys

  1. countable, uncountable The mulberry fruit.
  2. countable, uncountable A tincture, the colour of mulberries, between gules (red) and purpure (purple).

adjective

  1. not comparable Of a mulberry colour. 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.

Murrey²

proper noun Murreys

  1. A surname.

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noun red colour

Españolmorado
Portuguêsmorado

adj having a murrey colour

Deutschdunkelrotbraun
Italianomorato

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@misc{murrey_2026,
  title = {murrey},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/murrey},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}