‖ 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.)
| 1351 Lett. Bk. F. Lond. lf. 208 Furree de Pellure come de meneueyr, Gris, Purree, Destranlyng, Popell' Desquirels, Bys des Conyns des leures. 1365 Lett. 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]. 1429 Sc. 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.]. 1455 Sc. 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. |