Brewer's: Grecian Stairs

A corruption of greesing stairs. Greesings (steps) still survives in the architectural word grees, and in the compound word de-grees. There is still on the hill at Lincoln a flight of stone steps called “Grecian stairs.”

“Paul stood on the greezen [i.e. stairs].” —Wicliffe: Acts xxi. 40.

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