Lexicographical Neighbors of Greeses
Literary usage of Greeses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Coryat's Crudities: Hastily Gobled Up in Five Moneths Travells in France by Thomas Coryate, George Coryate (1905)
"For they con- taine no lesse then a hundred and fifty greeses. And you must ascend
by five greeses at a place till you come to the toppe, the severall ..."
2. Coryat's Crudities: Hastily Gobled Up in Five Moneths Travells in France by Thomas Coryate, George Coryate (1905)
"For they con- taine no lesse then a hundred and fifty greeses. And you must ascend
by five greeses at a place till you come to the toppe, the severall ..."
3. Coryate's Crudities: Hastily Gobled Up in Five Months Travels in France by Thomas Coryate, George Coryate (1905)
"Testimony of King Henry the Third of France. ascent to each of these wels by
three marble greeses. They yeeld very pleasant water. For I tasted it. ..."
4. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy by Royal Irish Academy (1905)
"... and hanged or covered with green, and the said Lord Deputy had steps or
greeses [stairs] made and covered for the seat of estate, being richly hanged. ..."
5. Ancient Mysteries Described,: Especially the English Miracle Plays, Founded by William Hone (1823)
"... having St. Cuthbert's arms upon it, all embroidered with gold, bringing it
betwixt them upon the cushion to the lowest greeses, or steps in the quire, ..."
6. Catholicon Anglicum: An English-Latin Word-book, Dated 1483 by Sidney John Hervon Herrtage (1882)
"... by ladders or greeses.' Cooper. But probably the meaning here ia hangings, or
a canopy, as in Morte Arthure, 3194 : ' The kynge hyme ..."
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