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Grogram

//ˈɡɹɒɡɹəm// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A strong, rough fabric made up of a mixture of silk, and mohair or wool. countable, uncountable

    "Are not your Frenchmen neate? Fine, as you ſee, / I have but one frenchman, looke, hee followes mee. / Certes they are neatly cloth'd. I, of this minde am, / Your only wearing is your Grogaram; / Not ſo Sir, I have more."

  2. 2
    a coarse fabric of silk mixed with wool or mohair and often stiffened with gum wordnet
  3. 3
    A garment made from this fabric. countable, uncountable

    "[W]ould you, Lady Alma, refuse to purchase a new gown, when by length of time your old grogram was worn to tatters, or grown so unfashionable as to excite ridicule in the very boys as you go to church?"

Etymology

Borrowed from French gros-grain (“coarse grain, a strong fabric”), from gros (“coarse”) + grain (“grain”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵerh₂- (“to grow old, mature”)). The word is a doublet of grosgrain which was borrowed later.

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