Noun: grosgrain
| Singular | grosgrain |
| Plural | grosgrains |
Sample Sentences
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He was on a leash, I realized. The grosgrain strap was wrapped around her hand. [2022, Ling Ma, “Returning”, in Bliss Montage, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN:]
Nouns inflected like grosgrain
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from French gros-grain (“coarse grain, a strong fabric”), from gros (“coarse”) + grain (“grain”). Doublet of grogram, which was borrowed earlier. See: French Nouns '
gros-grain'.