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English
Etymology
See ambergris.
Noun
grisamber (uncountable)
- (obsolete, rare) ambergris
1671, John Milton, “The Second Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: J M for John Starkey , →OCLC, page 46, lines 340–344 and 348–349:With diſhes pill'd, and meats of nobleſt ſort / And ſavor, Beaſts of chase, or Fowl of game, / In paſtry built, or from the ſpit, or boyl'd / Griſ-amber-ſtream'd; all Fiſh from Sea or Shore, / […] Alas how ſimple, to theſe Cates compar'd / Was the crude Apple that diverted Eve!
References
“grisamber”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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