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‖ puree, purray, n.1 Obs.
Also 4 purree, 5 purry.
[a. AF. purée, for F. puré, pa. pple. of F. purer: see pure v.]
= pured 2 b, i.e. pured or pure white miniver, the belly fur of the grey squirrel in winter, used in the furring of garments.
(In the London Letter Bks. in AF. form puree; in 15th c. Sc. as puray, purray.)
1351Lett. Bk. F. Lond. lf. 208 Furree de Pellure come de meneueyr, Gris, Purree, Destranlyng, Popell' Desquirels, Bys des Conyns des leures. 1365Lett. Bk. G. Lond. lf. 162 b, Item q' nul del mister entremelle ventres de calabre en furours de puree [in Lett. Bk. H. lf. 39 in fururis puratis] ne de menever ne de Bissh [tr. in Riley Mem. Lond. (1868) 329 No one of the trade shall mingle bellies of calabre with furs of puree, or of minever, or of bisshes]. 1429Sc. Acts Jas. I (1814) II. 18 Þat na man sal weir clathis of silk na furringis of mertrikis, funȝeis, puray, na grece, na nane oþir riche furring bot allanirly knychtis [etc.]. 1455Sc. Acts Jas. II ibid. 43 The vþir lordis of parliament to haif ane mantill of rede rycht sa oppinnit befor and lynyt with silk or furryt with cristy gray, grece, or purray, togiddir with ane hude of the sammyn clath, and furryt as saide is. |