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Eminence ___ (confidential agent)
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grise
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Grice \Grice\ (gr[imac]s), n. [OE. gris, grise; of Scand. origin; cf. Icel. gr?ss, Sw. gris, Dan. grus, also Gr. ?, Skr. ghrshvi, boar. Cf. Grise , Griskin .] A little pig. [Written also grise .] [Scot.]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. (context obsolete English) A step (in a flight of stairs); a degree. Etymology 2 n. (alternative form of grice nodot=yes English) (a pig)
Usage examples of grise.
Les aigues blanches et grises, le cou bas, cherchaient leur vie dans les menus roseaux qui craquaient sous leur pied et sous leurs dents.
Era, nos dice, un hombre consumido y terroso, de ojos grises y barba gris, de rasgos singularmente vagos.
Les joues creuses, avec des yeux de braise sous les meches grises de ses cheveux qui se tordaient hors de sa coiffe, noire, seche, muette, sa bouche ruinee, son menton menacant et son morne silence, affligeaient mon pere.
By the early 1970s, Saddam had emerged as the regime's eminence grise.
It showed him standing by a picnic table in a backyard somewhere, tending a barbecue and acting as eminence grise to a crowd of small children, presumably his grandkids.
Bernard Godwin, the Mall's eminence grise, has been our surrogate father, and like disputatious children we've been yelling ''Choose me!