The Collaborative International Dictionary
Murrey \Mur"rey\, n. [OF. mor['e]e a dark red color, mor
blackish brown, fr. L. morum mulberry, blackberry, or fr.
Maurus a Moor. Cf. Mulberry, Moor, Morelle.]
A dark red color. -- a. Of a dark red color.
--Bacon.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The mulberry fruit. 2 (context tincture English) A tincture, the colour of mulberries, between gules and purpure.
Wikipedia
In heraldry, murrey is a " stain", or a non-standard tincture, of a dark reddish purple colour.
Usage examples of "murrey".
Once the two wizards were mounted, on a thick-necked black and a murrey roan, we made good time through the Caladhrian countryside.
I wore proper court dress, a tight chainse of finest linen, a bliaud of deep murrey color with matching veil over a modest wimple and chin strap.
His daughters in their bright purple and murrey gowns flitted from here to there and back again, seemingly without purpose.
The sword-bearer was to be provided with a gown of murrey, and a deputation from the civic guilds, to the number of 410 persons, clad in gowns of the same colour, was to join the cavalcade.
Sufficient that the Lord of Belec wore the small iron key in plain sight against the murrey brown cloth of his surcoat.
One hand fell to the embroidered forepart that showed through the inverted V of her kirtle and she touched one of the flowers done in silks of murrey, russet, and whey.
But out of the snow of the yard, the flowers climbed on their briars up the high walls, up to the very tops, a curtain of dark green and lavish reds, of smoky pinks and peaches too, of murrey and magenta and ivory.
They were dressed in roughly tanned skins, and breeches of thick, coarse-woven cloth dyed the browns and greens and murreys that you can make with the mountain plants.