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Groʹgram

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A coarse kind of taffety, stiffened with gum. A corruption of the French gros-grain.

“Gossips in grief and grograms clad.”


Praed: The Troubadour, canto i. stanza 5.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Grisilda or Griselda
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Groat
Grog
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Grogram
Groined Ceiling
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