morris
morris Lexical Profile
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• noun
A traditional English folk dance performed outdoors by costumed dancers wearing small bells attached to their clothing and wielding sticks, swords, or handkerchiefs.
"The village festival featured a lively morris performed on the green to the accompaniment of an accordion."
An ancient two-player strategy board game, most commonly played as nine men's morris, in which players attempt to form rows of three pieces on a grid to capture the opponent's counters.
"Archaeologists uncovered a stone slab etched with a grid for playing morris."
The flat, ribbon-like, transparent larva (leptocephalus) of a conger eel or related marine eel before it undergoes metamorphosis into its adult form.
• verb
To perform or take part in a traditional morris dance.
"The troupe morrised through the cobbled streets to celebrate May Day."
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Word Origin & Etymology
From Middle English morys, an alteration of moreys ('Moorish'), via Old French morois, reflecting the historical belief that the traditional folk dance and board game originated in Moorish Spain or North Africa.