Unscramble

g 2 r 1 o 1 g 2 r 1 a 1 m 3

7 letters · 11 points in Scrabble

Meaning

noun a coarse fabric of silk mixed with wool or mohair and often stiffened with gum

originBorrowed 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.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0

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