Middle English Dictionary Entry
grẹ̄singe ger.(2)
Entry Info
| Forms | grẹ̄singe ger.(2) |
| Etymology | From grẹ̄s n. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
A flight of stairs.
Associated quotations
- ?a1425(c1400) Mandev.(1) (Tit C.16)144/9 : Vessell of syluer is þere non..But þei maken þerof grecynges & pileres.
- (1449) in Willis & C.Cambridge 210 : Fyndyng all tymber and borde of oke to the seid Flores with all lathes tymber for gresynges and Midelwalles.
- a1450(1408) *Vegetius(1) (Dc 291)96b : In þe makynge of thyn Inner walle at eueriche fourty or fifty foot of lengþe esy gresynges [L graduum] fro þe playn grounde of þe citee vp to þe walles.
- (1482) Paston6.51 : Item, I bequeth to William Paston..a litel white bedde that hangeth over the gresyngges in the litell chaumber.