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kreese

kreese is the dated form of kris.

Meaning of kris

Noun

kris (plural krises or krisses)

  1. A traditional Indonesian, Malaysian, or Filipino sword or dagger having a tapering, usually serpentine blade.
    • Anne Talbot looked demurely ravishing, as was her intention, in a very low-cut evening frock of bottle-green, choker of Kelantan silver, earrings in the shape of krises.1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 292

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Forms of kreese

Noun
pluralkreeses
Verb
third-person singular presentkreeses
present participlekreesing
past participlekreesed
pastkreesed

Questions about kreese

What is kreese the dated form of?
Kreese is the dated form of kris.

Words near kreese in the dictionary

  1. Kreegers
  2. kreel
  3. kreels
  4. KREEP
  5. krees
  6. kreese
  7. kreesed
  8. kreeses
  9. kreesing
  10. Krefeld
  11. Kreff

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Adapted from Wiktionary: kreese (page history and authors); kris (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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