grogram

• grogran

Borrowed from French gros-grain (“coarse grain, a strong fabric”), from gros (“coarse”) + grain (“grain”). Doublet of grosgrain, which was borrowed later.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹɒ.ɡɹəm/

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grogram (countable and uncountable, plural grograms)

1. A strong fabric; a mixture of silk and wool or mohair.
   • 1605, Ben Jonson, George Chapman, and John Marston, Eastward Hoe Act 1 Scene 2:

     I like some humors of the Cittie dames well: to eate cherries onely at an angell a pound, good; to dye rich scarlet black, pretty; to line a grogaram gowne cleane thorough with velvet, tollerable; their pure linnen, their smocks of 3. li. a smock, are to be borne withall. But your minsing niceryes, taffata pipkins, durance petticotes and silver bodkins—Gods my life, as I shall be a lady, I cannot indure it!

   • 2001, Kikue Yamakawa, ‎Kate Wildman Nakai, Women of the Mito Domain: Recollections of Samurai Family Life:

     They had known nothing of woolen cloth, but now the popularity of obi made of imported grogram spread like wildfire. This popularity produced various stories in its wake.

• grog (speculatively)

• → French: gourgouran
  • → Catalan: gorgorà
  • → Portuguese: gorgorão
  • → Spanish: gorgorán

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