murrey

How to use murrey in a sentence

• One peculiarity of the third period is the frequent use of green patterns on “murrey”-coloured grounds.

  Needlework As Art | Marian Alford

• The gown is of a reddish murrey colour, with ermine or miniver lining to skirt and sleeves, the under sleeves being blue.

  Chaucer for Children | Mrs. H. R. Haweis

• Much to be regretted is the disuse of the old word murrey, now only employed in heraldry.

  Wood and Garden | Gertrude Jekyll

• The mayor and aldermen in new cloaks of red murrey and gold chains sallied forth to meet the King returning from abroad.

  South London | Sir Walter Besant

• Dolla murrey, a character in Crabbe's Borough, who died playing cards.

  Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol 1 | The Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D.