gryne

In the Kingston accounts for 1537-8 are enumerated 'a fryers cote of russat, and a kyrtele weltyd with red cloth, a Mowrens cote of buckram, and four morres daunsars cotes of white fustian spangelid, and two gryne saten cotes, and disarddes cote of cotton, and six payre of garters with belles. '

Yet Again Max Beerbohm 1914

"Aw, dass nut'n; he jis only say, 'Is M'sieu' Walleece big-in to gryne? '"

Bonaventure A Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana George Washington Cable 1884

"_Et_ M'sieu 'Le Bourgeois," said the host, as the schoolmaster accepted a split-bottomed chair, "he's big-in to gryne?"

Bonaventure A Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana George Washington Cable 1884

But he laid it not to his work, but to his personal unloveliness, and said to 'Mian he did not doubt if he were more engaging there would not be so many maidens kept at the wheel and loom in the priceless hours of school, or so many strapping youths sent, all unlettered, to the sugar-kettles of the coast plantations what time M'sieu' Walleece big-in to gryne.

Bonaventure A Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana George Washington Cable 1884