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Gris

Gris \Gris\ (gr[i^]s), n. sing. & pl. [See Grice a pig.] A little pig. [Obs.]
--Piers Plowman.

Gris

Gris \Gris\, n. [OF., fr. gris gray. Cf. G. grauwerk (lit. gray work) the gray skin of the Siberian squirrel. See Gris, a.] A costly kind of fur. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.

Gris

Gris \Gris\, a. [OF. & F., fr. LL. griseus; of German origin; cf. MHG. gris, G. greis, hoary. Cf. Grizzle.] Gray. [R.]
--Chaucer.

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Gris, meaning grey and tipsy in French and grey in Spanish, and pig in Swedish, Danish and Norwegian may refer to:

People:

  • Le Gris, 18th century chief of the Pepikokia band of the Miami tribe
  • Jacques Le Gris (c. 1330s–1386), French squire and knight
  • Jean Antoine Arthur Gris (1829–1872), French botanist
  • Juan Gris (1887–1927), pseudonym of Spanish artist José Victoriano González-Pérez
  • Charles-Edouard Jeanneret-Gris (1887–1965), birth name of the French architect and artist Le Corbusier
  • Edward Grismond Beaumont 'Gris' Davies-Scourfield, (1918-2006), British Army officer

Places:

  • Bete Gris, beach and bay on Lake Superior, Michigan

In zoology:

  • Cecilia Gris (Caecilia subnigricans), species of amphibian
  • Rana-ladrona Gris (Craugastor glaucus), species of frog

In viticulture:

  • Grolleau gris
  • Pinot gris
  • Sauvignon gris
  • Terret gris
  • Trousseau gris
  • Vin gris, white wine made from red grapes

Other:

  • Film gris, a type of film noir

Usage examples of "gris".

Era, nos dice, un hombre consumido y terroso, de ojos grises y barba gris, de rasgos singularmente vagos.

En la cobriza cara, pintarrajeada de colores feroces, los ojos eran de ese azul desganado que los ingleses llaman gris.

This consists of a simple gros de laine, trimmed with ashes of roses, with overskirt of scare bleu ventre saint gris, cut bias on the off-side, with facings of petit polonaise and narrow insertions of pa^te de foie gras backstitched to the mise en sce`ne in the form of a jeu d'esprit.

A shield bisected by a bend sinister d'une meche en metal gris - that is to say, a steel grey shield indicating his personal determination and zeal (how zealous, ah-ha, these businessmen are!

So the officers, heeding the words of wisdom from Gris and Bleu, reevaluated their objections to the Hawk's order.

Captain Gris and Bleu were masters of camouflage and escape cartography.

The escape routes on the ground had been exhaustively analyzed by Gris and Bleu, who were not only the best in the 246 business, but who would be using them as well.

Captains Gris and Bleu, dressed in tight-fitting police uniforms, stood erect and motionless behind the trunks of two Appian maples on opposite sides of the winding road motionless except for their right hands, which they flexed at their sides, thumbs caressing the short hollow needles that protruded from the inverted rings.

As the final two patrolmen came between the two maple trees, Gris and Bleu leaped out, hammerlocked both men with their left arms, and each plunged a small needle into his man's neck.

Gris and Bleu lowered the motorcycles~between their legs and dragged each body off into the underbrush.

Once Gris and Bleu joined the smoke-engulfed melee, they would work swiftly, their church habits adding to the confusion.

Gris and Bleu lunged out of the brush into the confusion of smoke, screams, and flailing arms, their wide cassocks billowing, rings at the ready.

The conference was interrupted by Captain Gris and Bleu, who raced up and snapped to attention.

He was holding Frescobaldi, keeping an alert eye on a stunned Sam Devereaux, and watching Captains Gris and Bleu make their final evaluations over the maps.

He was brought in by Soltan Gris to start the phony World United Chanties Mercy and Benevolent Hospital in Afyon.