Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A short jacket or cloak made of thick coarse cloth with a hood attached, worn by the Greeks and others in the Levant.
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- noun A type of rough
jacket with ahood .
Etymologies
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Examples
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“It is grego!” shouted one of the crew.
Journey to Malta 2008
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A salada grega, por exemplo, funciona tão bem com queijo de cabra como com feta, que é um queijo grego um bocadinho difícil de encontrar e um também um bocadinho caro.
A gosto Artur 2007
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Partisan grego ferido na II guerra, estudou matemática e arquitectura foi assistente de Le Corbusier antes de se dedicar à música.
Xenakis (1922 - 2001) Artur 2005
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Vem de Hermes Trimegistus, deus grego das magias, e identificado com Tot, deus egípcio e mestre da escritura, e também identificado com o latino Mercúrio - daí Trimegisto: Hermes, Tot, Mercúrio.
Epónimos Artur 2005
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O grego Khímaira parece ter significado «cabrinha».
Quimeras Artur 2005
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Going to his heavy grego, or wrapall, or dreadnaught, which he had previously hung on
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First he takes about a double handful of shavings out of his grego pocket, and places them carefully before the idol; then laying a bit of ship biscuit on top and applying the flame from the lamp, he kindled the shavings into a sacrificial blaze.
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At last extinguishing the fire, he took the idol up very unceremoniously, and bagged it again in his grego pocket as carelessly as if he were a sportsman bagging a dead woodcock.
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Going to his heavy grego, or wrapall, or dreadnaught, which he had previously hung on a chair, he fumbled in the pockets, and produced at length a curious little deformed image with
Moby Dick, or, the whale Herman Melville 1855
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First he takes about a double handful of shavings out of his grego pocket, and places them carefully before the idol; then laying a bit of ship biscuit on top and applying the flame from the lamp, he kindled the shavings into
Moby Dick, or, the whale Herman Melville 1855
chained_bear commented on the word grego
"'...should you not like a tarpaulin jacket with a hood, at least? Mr Wetherby, jump down to my cabin and fetch the Doctor a grego: there is one hanging against the bulkhead.'"
--P. O'Brian, The Yellow Admiral, 213
I've seen this word before but spelled differently--griego.
Edit: A Sea of Words: "grego or griego--A coarse jacket with a hood worn in the Levant. Also slang for a rough greatcoat." (220)
March 19, 2008
yarb commented on the word grego
Going to his heavy grego, or wrapall, or dreadnaught, which he had previously hung on a chair, he fumbled in the pockets...
- Melville, Moby-Dick, ch. 3
July 23, 2008
knitandpurl commented on the word grego
"Jack stuffed his glass into the pocket of the grego Stephen had brought him, ran up to the masthead, twined himself firmly into the rigging and trained the telescope in the direction of the pointing arm."
Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian, p 162 of the Norton paperback edition
July 13, 2019