rory

adj. covered with tiny drops of water that form on grass and leaves during the night.

adj. covered with dew; dewy. This sense is obsolete and restricted to historical or highly stylised literary contexts.

“The poet described the rory grass in the early hours of the morning.”

“The manuscript contained a vivid description of the rory meadows, capturing the damp chill of a sixteenth-century English dawn.”

Archaic · Literary

adj. having colours that are too bright or showy in a way that looks cheap or bad.

adj. characterised by gaudy, tasteless, or unsubtle colours. This usage is obsolete and no longer found in contemporary standard English.

“He wore a rory waistcoat that made everyone at the party stare.”

“Critics of the era often dismissed his later paintings as rory, citing an over-reliance on aggressive and unblended pigments.”

Archaic