Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun etc. See
morris , etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Same as 1st
morris . - adjective Dancing the morrice; dancing.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
dance , especially amorris dance - verb To move away rapidly; to decamp.
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Examples
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England sometimes use swords, and in one case the performers of an undoubted sword-dance were called "morrice" dancers in the eighteenth century.
Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan Clement A. Miles
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Smith, for he broke off from the morrice dancers, promising, as it seems, to meet them, as your honour has said, at the sign of the Griffin, in order to conclude the evening.
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Morrises and Morrisons descended from orgiastic Morris-dancers, also called Marian's morrice-men.
Robin Hood Jan 2008
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February 21, 2008 at 9:08 am sory ai dind reply 2 ur comment, morrice !
pwning ur elders - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Morrises and Morrisons descended from orgiastic Morris-dancers, also called Marian's morrice-men.
Archive 2008-07-01 Jan 2008
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The morrice dancers accordingly set out upon their further progress, dancing and carolling as they went along to the sound of four musicians, who led the joyous band, while Simon Glover drew their coryphaeus into his house, and placed him in a chair by his parlour fire.
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“Aha, water, sayest thou, Long Allen?” exclaimed another archer, with a most scornful emphasis on the despised element; “how wouldst like such beverage thyself, after such a morrice dancing?”
The Talisman 2008
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It is recorded in the protocol of the Reverend Sir Louis Lundin, that divers well reported witnesses saw our deceased citizen, Oliver Proudfute, till a late period accompanying the entry of the morrice dancers, of whom he was one, as far as the house of Simon Glover, in Curfew Street, where they again played their pageant.
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“Farewell, then,” cried his mates in the morrice — “fare well, slashing bonnet maker, till we meet again.”
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Catholic should drink as much good ale and wine as he had means to procure; and, if young and able, that he should dance at the ring, or figure among the morrice dancers, who, in the city of Perth, as elsewhere, wore a peculiarly fantastic garb, and distinguished themselves by their address and activity.
brtom commented on the word morrice
Across the page the symbols moved in grave morrice, in the mummery of their letters, wearing quaint caps of squares and cubes.
Joyce, Ulysses, 2
December 29, 2006
brtom commented on the word morrice
"Zounds! here they are. Morrice! Prance! "
Goldsmith, She Stoops, III
January 11, 2007