greece

See also: Greece

English

Etymology

From grees, plural of gree (“step”).

Noun

greece

1. (obsolete) A flight of stairs.
   • 1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [i.e. Francis Bacon], The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, […], London: […] W[illiam] Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret, →OCLC, page 178:

     And after the Procession, the King himselfe remaining seated in the Quire, the Lord Archbishop vpon the greece of the Quire, made a long Oration.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “greece”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Middle English

Noun

greece

1. Alternative form of grece (“step, steps”)