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Kris   /krɪs/   Listen
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Creese  n.  (Written also crease and kris)  A dagger or short sword used by the Malays, commonly having a serpentine blade. "From a Malayan creese to a sailor's jackknife."



Kris  n.  A Malay dagger. See Creese.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Kris" Quotes from Famous Books



... was fading amid her misty rings, And every stocking was stuffed with childhood's precious things, Old Kris Kringle looked round and saw on the elm tree bough High hung, an oriole's nest, lonely and ...
— Graded Memory Selections • Various

... school. Maggie Lou had a wrist watch, too, for Christmas, but not so pretty as the one you gave me. Miss Hadley says I do remarkable work in English whenever I feel like it. I don't know whether that's a compliment or not. I took Kris Kringle for the subject of a theme the other day, and represented him as caught in an iceberg in the grim north, and not being able to reach all the poor little children in the tenements and hovels. The ...
— Turn About Eleanor • Ethel M. Kelley

... girl, decisively. "I know. I had a letter once; but Hugh never had a letter. I wish Kris Kringle would take them away this very, very night; and lessons, too, I do. What will he bring us for Christmas, mamma? I know what. ...
— Mr. Kris Kringle - A Christmas Tale • S. Weir Mitchell



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