Definitions
a Malayan dagger with a wavy blade
Word origin
Borrowed from Malay keris. Doublet of kalis. Recognized as part of English ca. 1580.
Used in a sentence
“Anne Talbot looked demurely ravishing, as was her intention, in a very low-cut evening frock of bottle-green, choker of Kelantan silver, earrings in the shape of krises.”
“[...] when I was a boy, but Rajah Sul and Sultan Abdel krissed and speared all the poor people and burned the campongs.”
“One Malay seaman had resisted the rattan halter––he had been krissed to death on the spot and thrown overboard.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Wavy dagger”4 letters
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