grogram
(ˈgrɒgrəm)
Forms: 6–7 grogeram, -an(e, grogran(e, grograin(e, -ayn(e, grow-graine, 7–8 grogrein(e, -eyn, (7 grogane, grogaram, -arom, -eraine, -erin, -eron, -oram, -oran, grograme, -gran(t, -gren, -grum), 6– grogram.
[ad. F. gros grain large or coarse grain.]
1. A coarse fabric of silk, of mohair and wool, or of these mixed with silk; often stiffened with gum. Cf. grosgrain.
| 1562 Wills & Inv. N.C. (Surtees 1835) 200 Thre gounes one of grograyn, gardid w{supt} velvet. c 1570 Pride & Lowl. (1841) 19 His upper stockes of sylken grogerane. 1593 Donne Sat. iv. 86 Your only wearing is your Grogaram. 1598 B. Jonson Ev. Man in Hum. ii. i, He shall ha' the grogran's, at the rate I told him. 1630 R. Brathwait Eng. Gentlem. (1641) 125 Stampe and fret like gumm'd grograne. 1674 S. Jeake Arith. (1696) 65, 1 Piece of Moccadoes and Lile Grograins. 1712 Addison Spect. No. 530 ¶4 [She] did more Execution upon me in Grogram, than the greatest Beauty..had ever done in Brocade. 1752 Carte Hist. Eng. III. 481 Instructing the English in the art of making sayes grogreins and other light stuffs. 1757 W. Thompson Milkmaid 34 The charmful Village-Maid, With Innocence and Grogram blest. 1823 Scott Peveril xi, But then there is..her Aunt, that wears eternal black grogram for that unlucky Colonel Christian. |
| transf. 1633 P. Fletcher Purple Isl. vi. lxix, The Lily high her silver Grogram reares. |
2. A garment made of grogram.
| 1633 Ford Love's Sacr. i. ii, Go, thou art as fretting as an old grogrum. 1767 Char. in Ann. Reg. 53/2 The doctor..appeared in a greasy black grogram which he called his scholar's coat. 1807–8 W. Irving Salmag. (1824) 32 No longer our fair ones their grograms display. 1867 Ouida C. Castlemaine (1879) 9 Madam from the vicarage, in her grogram. |
3. attrib., as
grogram apron,
grogram camlet,
grogram cassock-case,
grogram cloak,
grogram coat,
grogram doublet,
grogram gown,
grogram petticoat,
grogram silk,
grogram yarn.
| 1810 Splendid Follies II. 4 Catching his spurs in her *grogram apron. |
| 1582 Rates Custom-ho. C iv, *Grogram Chamlets the peece. |
| a 1658 Cleveland Wks. (1687) 290 A wretched Serge, or *grogane Cassock case. |
| 1614 C. Brooke Will in Poems (Grosart) 21 Unto my nephewe..I give my silk *Grograine cloake. 1861 Reade Cloister & H. I. 284 A little grogram cloak over her shoulders. |
| 1811 Sporting Mag. XXXVII. 131 The Admiral [Vernon] at that time wore a *grogram coat. |
| 1628 Boyle in Lismore Papers (1886) II. 263, I gaue..W{supm} New..a *grogran dublet. |
| 1605 Chapman, etc. Eastward Hoe i. A 4, To line a *Grogarom gowne cleane thorough with veluet. 1859 Geo. Eliot A. Bede 238 An excellent grogram gown. |
| 1649 Bury Wills (Camden) 220 My watered grogerin gowne and watered *grogerin petticoate. |
| 1582 Rates Custom-ho. C iv, *Grograin silk the yarde. |
| 1638 L. Roberts Map Commerce I. 123 *Grograme yarne. 1662 Stat. Irel. (1765) II. 418 Grograin yarn, the small pound..2s. 6d. 1703 Lond. Gaz. No. 3931/3 Some Raw Silk and Grogram Yarn. |