† saffredadj.
? Anglo-Irish. Obsolete.
= saffroned adj.
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saffroned1303
saffred1466
yellowed1824
1466 Anc. Cal. Rec. Dublin (1889) 326 Ne woman..use to werre saffyrred smokes ne saffyrred kewryches.
1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis i. 18 The roabe pretiouse colored lyke saufred Achantus [L. croceo Acantho].
1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis i. 20 With roabs of saffrod [? read saffred] Achanthus.
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adj.1466- to play a holding game
- to play a hunch
- to play a one's hunches
- to play a pageant
- to play a part
- to play a paw
- to play a person a pageant
- to play a person fair
- to play a person false
- to play a person for a etc
- to play a person for a fool
- to play a person for a sucker
- to play a person foul
- to play a person off the stage
- to play a prize
- to play a role
- to play a role in
- to play a straight bat
- to play a thing close to one's chest
- to play a touch
- to play abobbed
- to play abobbed with
- to play about
- to play across the line
- to play advantage