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kersie

kersie is the obsolete form of kersey.

Meaning of kersey

Noun

kersey (countable and uncountable, plural kerseys)

  1. A type of rough woollen cloth.
    • Hencefoorth my wooing minde ſhalbe expreſt / In ruſſet yeas, and honeſt kerſie noes.c. 1595–1596 (date written), W. Shakespere [i.e., William Shakespeare], A Pleasant Conceited Comedie Called, Loues Labors Lost. […] (First Quarto), London: […] W[illiam] W[hite] for Cut[h]bert Burby...

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Forms of kersie

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Questions about kersie

What is kersie the obsolete form of?
Kersie is the obsolete form of kersey.

Words near kersie in the dictionary

  1. Kershaw County
  2. Kershes
  3. Kershner
  4. Kershners
  5. Kershopefoot
  6. kersie
  7. kersies
  8. kerslam
  9. kerslap
  10. Kersley
  11. kerslop

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Adapted from Wiktionary: kersie (page history and authors); kersey (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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