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Brise vs Grise - What's the difference?

brise | grise |

As nouns the difference between brise and grise

is that brise is breeze while grise is a greyish shade given to a work of art.

As a verb grise is

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brise

English

Noun

  • (obsolete, rare) A tract of land that has been left untilled for a long time.
  • * 1616 : Richard Surflet [tr.] and Gervase Markham [aug.], Estienne and Liébault’s Maison Rustique, or The Countrie Farme , page 92
    • Afterward let him draw a Brise or two made fast in the yoke.

    References

    * “ †brise]” listed in the [2nd Ed.; 1989

    Anagrams

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    grise

    English

    Etymology 1

    Properly the plural of .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A step (in a flight of stairs); a degree.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Every grise of fortune / Is smoothed by that below.

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (a pig)
    • (Webster 1913) ----