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• Murrey — For the English cricketer, see Barbara Murrey. In heraldry, murrey is a stain , an occasionally used tincture. According to dictionaries, murrey is the colour of mulberries, somewhere between gules (red) and purpure (violet), almost maroon;[1]… …   Wikipedia

• murrey — n. & adj. archaic n. the colour of a mulberry; a deep red or purple. adj. of this colour. Etymology: ME f. OF moreacute f. med.L moratus f. morum mulberry …   Useful english dictionary

• murrey — noun /məriː/ a) The mulberry fruit. b) A tincture, the colour of mulberries, between gules and purpure …   Wiktionary

• Murrey — The dark purple red of the mulberry fruit s juice; the range of colour carries from purple to a reddish brown. The word was also used of cloth and stained glass so coloured. [< Lat. morum = mulberry, fruit of the mulberry] …   Dictionary of Medieval Terms and Phrases

• murrey — [ mʌri] noun archaic the deep purple red colour of a mulberry. ↘Heraldry another term for sanguine. Origin ME: via OFr. from med. L. moratus, from morum mulberry …   English new terms dictionary

• murrey — /ˈmʌri/ (say muree) noun a dark purplish red colour. {Middle English morrey, from Old French more, from Latin mōrum mulberry} …  

• Tincture (heraldry) — In heraldry, tinctures are the colours used to emblazon a coat of arms. These can be divided into several categories including light tinctures called metals, dark tinctures called colours, nonstandard colours called stains, furs, and proper . A… …   Wikipedia

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• Tricking (heraldry) — The system of heraldry has two main methods to designate the tinctures of arms: hatching and tricking, i. e. designation of tinctures by means of abbrevations or signs.The Origin of TrickingThe system of heraldry has always had some methods to… …   Wikipedia

• heraldry — heraldist, n. /her euhl dree/, n., pl. heraldries. 1. the science of armorial bearings. 2. the art of blazoning armorial bearings, of settling the rights of persons to bear arms or to use certain bearings, of tracing and recording genealogies, of …   Universalium