Gris
/ɡriː/noun
A gray color or gray fabric, especially in French and in historical English usage.
Did you know?In English, gris survives most visibly in phrases like *grisaille*, the painting technique that builds images in shades of gray, from the same French color word.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Germanic
PGmc
*grīsaz
“gray, grayish”
Old English
OE
grǣg
“gray”
Old French
OF
gris
“gray, gray-haired”
Middle English
ME
gris
“gray; gray fabric”
Modern English
EN
gris
“a gray color or gray fabric, chiefly in historical or borrowed usage”