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sorrage

sorrage noun: the blades of green corn, wheat or barley.

Noun

sorrage (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) The blades of green corn, wheat or barley.
    • Leave us the hazel thickets set / Along the hills, leave us a month that yields / The fragile bloodroot and the violet, / Leave us the sorrage shimmering on the fields.1880, Duncan Campbell Scott, “Youth and Time”, in Scribner's Magazine, volume 6, page 298
    • the sanguine hue of the poppy and the hibiscus, the gold of the daisy and dandelion, the dark green of the sorrage on either side, and the blue and purple of the blossoming mulberry and sycamore1910, Joseph Richardson Parke, The Wizard of the Damavant: A Tale of the Crusades, page 151

Origin of sorrage

Compare sorrel.

Questions about sorrage

What does sorrage mean?
Sorrage means the blades of green corn, wheat or barley.
What part of speech is sorrage?
Sorrage is a noun.

Words near sorrage in the dictionary

  1. sorptivity
  2. sorptometer
  3. sorptometers
  4. sorr
  5. sorra
  6. sorrage
  7. Sorraia
  8. sorrance
  9. sorrances
  10. sorras
  11. sorrel

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