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Grise vs Grilse - What's the difference?

grise | grilse |

As nouns the difference between grise and grilse

is that grise is a greyish shade given to a work of art while grilse is a young salmon after its first return from the sea.

As a verb grise

is .

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) ----

    grilse

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A young salmon after its first return from the sea.
  • * 1961 , Albert Upton, Design for Thinking: A First Book in Semantics , Stanford University Press, page 4:
  • *:In our own tongue salmon are fry as babies, parr as children, smolt as adolescents, and grilse as adults.

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