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green

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Searchable Lemmata: grene (OE), grene (ME), grene (OScots), green (MdE).
Alternate Forms: grein, grenne, grenum, griene, grine, groeni, grone.

    Definitions and Defining Citations:

1(n.) Dye; shades and was particularly associated with celebrations of May (Monnas, L. forthcoming 2014). Not usually found as a term describing textiles in the Old English period (though it does occur describing other items), but found commonly in this sense from the Middle English period onwards. Also as an adj.: of green; of a green or greenish colour. Note also the compound Grenecloth (green cloth) qv.(ante 1000 still in current use)
1. uiridis: grene. Gloss. [DOE ÆGl (0515 (306.18)) circa 1000]
2. Wæs þæt æreste of grenum are geworht; nu hit is mid golde & mid seolfre gefrætwod. Ecclesiastic/Regula. From the Ascension Day homily in the Blickling collection, describing the furnishings of the Chapel of the Ascension on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem; this structure still stands today. [DOE HomS 46 (BlHom 11) (0069 (193)) ante 1000]
3. His wiues shule ben hol and newe ... Ðe meshakele of medeme fustane, and hire mentel grene oðer burnet ... His alter cloð great and sole, and hire chemise smal and hwit ... þe haued line sward, and hire winpel wit(work: a1200?) [MED Trin.Hom. ((Trin-C B.14.52) 163) ante 1225]
4. [150] ... He ferde as freke were fade, & ouer-al enker grene ... [153] ... A mere mantile abof, mensked with-inne With pelure pured apert ... [157] ... Hose of þat same grene Þat spenet on his sparlyr Arthurian, Heroic, Poetic, Romance. (work: c1390?) [MED Gawain ((Nero A.10) 150-157) circa 1400]
5. Estre of langares ... brou3t hym an helm off steel ... The helm was grene as glas(work: a1325?) [MED Otuel & R ((Fil) 291) ante 1500]
ME, MdE, OE, OScots; Primarily N/A.
Sex: N/A    Use: n/a    Status: n/a    Rank: n/a    Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: N/A.

    Etymological Evidence:

Definite, OE.
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