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A coarse fabric of silk mixed with wool or mohair and often stiffened with gum
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grogram
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Wiktionary
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n. A strong fabric; a mixture of silk and wool or mohair.
WordNet
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n. a coarse fabric of silk mixed with wool or mohair and often stiffened with gum
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1560s, from Middle French gros grain "coarse grain or texture;" see gross + grain (n.).
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Grogram \Grog"ram\, Grogran \Grog"ran\, n. [OF. gros-grain, lit., gros-grain, of a coarse texture. See Gross , and Grain a kernel, and cf. Grog .] A coarse stuff made of silk and mohair, or of coarse silk.
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redirect Grosgrain Category:Woven fabrics
Usage examples of grogram.
Sir Gregory Grogram, the late AttorneyGeneral, would of course be asked to resume his place, but Sir Timothy Beeswax, who was up to this moment Solicitor-General for the Conservatives, would also be invited to retain that which he held.
Sir Gregory Grogram, who was a rich, energetic man, determined to have a peerage, and convinced that, should the Coalition fall to pieces, the Liberal element would be in the ascendant,--so that the woolsack would then be opened to him,--declined to occupy the place.
But the old Duke in so saying had spoken as it were his public opinion,--giving, truly enough, to a few of his colleagues, such as Lord Drummond, Sir Gregory Grogram and others, the results of his general experience, but in his own bosom and with a private friend he was compelled to confess that there was a cloud in the heavens.
Now it had already been acknowledged, on the dictum of no less a man than Sir Gregory Grogram, the Attorney-General, that the action for libel, if taken at all, must be taken, not on the part of the Prime Minister, but on that of Phineas Finn.
Sir Gregory Grogram became Lord Chancellor, and the Liberal chief was content to borrow his senior law adviser from the Conservative side of the late Coalition.