greegree
Britishnoun
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They have more fetishes, and greegrees, and amulets, and wooden gods, and charms, than they know what to do with, and have surrounded themselves with spiritual mysteries that neither themselves nor anybody else can understand.
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Two large greegrees or amulets—being leathern purses, containing some holy words or sacred scraps—depended from his neck by silken cords.
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The ball had cut the ligature which bound his "greegree" of shells around his head, and the faithless charm lay on the ground beside him.
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I saw a native doctor making his "greegree," or charm, for rain.
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