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Answer for the clue "Ornamental grating on a car ", 6 letters:
grille

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"ornamental grating," 1660s, from French grille (fem.) "grating," from Old French greille "gridiron," from Latin craticula "gridiron" (see grill ). "The distinction in French between grille and grill ... appears to date from about the 16th c." [OED].

Usage examples of grille.

The journey took several minutes even at a sprint, through sunken tunnels and window-lined connecting bridges, up and down grilled ramps, through ponderous internal airlocks and sweltering aeroponics labs, taking this detour or that to avoid a blown bubble or failed airlock.

Looking around, Alec quickly spotted an old man grilling skewers of meat over a brazier nearby.

I can still taste the spicy, deep-fried fingers of speckled trout on a drive through Cajun country, the mountain of tiny grilled fishwithout an English name that we ate, head and all, on the Adriatic coast, the barbecued bluefish at the end of a Long Island summer, the little yellow perch we caught at sunset in Vermont and crisply panfried a few moments later.

His photographs of sexual acts, of sections of automobile radiator grilles and instrument panels, conjunctions between elbow and chromium window-sill, vulva and instrument binnacle, summed up the possibilities of a new logic created by these multiplying artefacts, the codes of a new marriage of sensation and possibility.

That distinctive fifties Buick grille, which looked to me like the mouth of a chrome crocodile.

Transfer to a platter, garnish with lemon wedges and divided bay leaves, and serve with grilled ciabatta bread and the rest of the garlic oil.

Riddler, his murderous sister Cime, Bashir of Free Nisibis who brought Enlil into the war, and Grille, representative of Ranke under whose aegis even the Tysian mageguild had sent a young adept along to fight.

Through the grille of the hatch he could see a mast, and sailors clambering like squirrels about the rigging.

Upon boarding, you present the porter with your passport and hotel reservations, enjoy a dinner of grilled halibut or perhaps a Coquilles St.

As the excellent American chefs Chris Schlesinger and John Willoughby have pointed out, grilling forced an entirely new approach to saucemaking: With no residue to deglaze, the cook had to think in terms of savory complements rather than subtle echoes.

Once in the system, he crawled through the maze of ductwork, until he came at last to the grille overlooking the room with the alcove and the rows of indentations on the alcove walls.

They feasted on thick steaks cut from the long back strips of the eland, and kebabs of kidney, liver and fat grilled over the coals.

It was a gutter, originally for shit and now for rainwater, a six-inch channel between the paving slabs that sluiced through grilles into the undercity at the furthest end.

When we have to secure the fortress, we just lift these grilles and give the beasts access to the whole outer ward.

It was a complex procedure, involving an alarm system and an arrangement of steel grilles, and she performed it with painstaking concentration.