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grece

grece noun: a flight of stairs.

Noun

grece (plural greces)

  1. (obsolete) A flight of stairs.
  2. (in plural, obsolete) Steps, stairs.
    • Sir said they a merueyllous aduentur / that may not be broughte vnto none ende / but by hym that passeth of bounte and of knyhthode al them of the round table / I wold sayd Galahad that ye wold lede me ther to / Gladly sayd they / and soo ledde hym tyl a caue / and he went doune vpon gresys / and...1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “xviij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book XVII

Forms of grece

pluralgreces
alternative formgriece

Origin of grece

From Middle English grece (“staircase”), from Old French grez, greis et al., plural of gre (“gree”) taken as a collective singular.

Questions about grece

What does grece mean?
Grece means a flight of stairs.
What part of speech is grece?
Grece is a noun.
What is the plural of grece?
The plural of grece is greces.

Words near grece in the dictionary

  1. grebos
  2. Grebs
  3. Grebănu
  4. Grecco
  5. Greccos
  6. grece
  7. greces
  8. Grecești
  9. grechishchevite
  10. Greci
  11. Grecian

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