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Definition of Gres-gris
1. Noun. An African amulet.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gres-gris
Literary usage of Gres-gris
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Antiquities of the Mesa Verde National Park, Cliff Palace by Jesse Walter Fewkes (1911)
"Les murs sont faits de gres gris, taille avec des outils de pierre, dont on volt
encore les traces. Lorsqu'on se servait de pierres ..."
2. Elements of Mineralogy by Richard Kirwan (1810)
"Gres Gris of the French.—This is a particular kind of sandstone, containing not
only grains of quartz, ..."
3. The Nürnberg stove by Ouida (1916)
"... chit of a damsel in white Nymph- enburg china; and a portly Franconian pitcher
in gres gris was calling aloud, "Oh, these Italians! always at feud! ..."
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