† colour-de-roy Obs.
[a. 16th c. F. couleur de roy ‘king's colour’.]
See quot. 1611.
| 1539 Ld. Treas. Acc. Sc. in Pitcairn Crim. Trials I. 298* xxiiij elnes of colourderoy to be þame coitis. 1543 Aberd. Reg. V. 18 (Jam.) Ane gown of colour-de-roy. 1602 Marston Antonio's Rev. i. iii, His nose is just colour de roy. 1611 Cotgr., Couleur de Roy, was in old time Purple; but now is the bright Tawnie, which wee also tearme, Colour de Roy. |