crios

/ krɪs /

noun

1. a multicoloured woven woollen belt traditionally worn by men in the Aran Islands

Word History and Origins

Origin of crios¹

Irish Gaelic

Example Sentences

Protests had erupted on Lesbos and Crios in early February, eventually turning violent on the fourth consecutive day, with mobs attacking police deployed from the mainland to guard construction sites for new migrant centers on the islands.

From Fox News

NO TICKET: My favorite event of DC Beer Week 2013 was Blind and Bitter, a blind tasting of two dozen IPAs from a dozen breweries at Scion and Crios Modern Mexican.

From Washington Post

Monosyllables characterised by io either drop the o or add a for the genitive; as, siol m. seed, g. s. s�l; lion m. a net, g. s. l�n; crioch f. a boundary, g. s. cr�ch; cioch f. the pap, g. s. c�che; fion m. wine, g. s. fiona; crios m. a girdle, g. s. criosa; fiodh m. timber, g. s. fiodha.

From Project Gutenberg

Perses was son of the Titans Crios and Eurybia.

From Project Gutenberg