gridelin

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  1. A pale-purple or gray-violet color. And his love, Lord help us, fades like my gredaline petticoat. Killigrew, Parson's Wedding, ii. 3. A fine gridelin, bordering upon violet. is thereby obtained [in dyeing with archil]; but this color has no permanence. Macfarlane, Dyeing and Calico-printing, p. 47.

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  1. Also gredalin, gridalin, grizelin, formerly gredaline; from French gris de lin, flax-gray: gris, gray (see grise); de, from Latin de, of; lin, from Latin linum, flax: see line.
 

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