Chiefly Sc. Obs. Also 6–7 entres, 6 enteres, intres. [app. irregularly f. ENTER v. + -ESS, after duress, largess.] = ENTRANCE, ENTRY, in certain senses. a. The opportunity, right or permission to enter. b. A means or place of entering. c. Entrance, initiation into a subject.
c. 1430. Henryson, Mor. Fab., 9. Of which the entresse was not hie nor brade.
1509. Hawes, Past. Pleas. (1845), 16. Into the toure for to have an intres. Ibid., xxiv. 109. The eres are but an intres To commyn wytte. Ibid., Joyful Medit., 4. As in this arte having small intres, But for to lerne is all myn appetite.
1519. Horman, Vulg., 255. Yf ye stande to thynne: ye geue entresse to your enemies.
1560–78. Bk. Discip. Ch. Scot. (1621), 41. And to have some entres in the first rudiments of Grammer.
c. 1565. Lindesay (Pitscottie), Chron. Scot. (1728), 3. The Chancellor … gave her Entress to visit her young Son.
a. 1572. Knox, Hist. Ref., Wks. 1846, I. 17. Yet is it the entress unto eternall lyif.
1600. Gowrie’s Conspir., in Harl. Misc. (Malh.), II. 345. The double dore … did byde them … halfe an houre … before they coulde get it broken and have entresse.
a. 1657. Sir J. Balfour, Ann. Scotl. (1824–5), II. 187. Nobilitey and caualleros striuing to gett entresse to see the ceremoney.
