Brewer's: Grogram

A coarse kind of taffety, stiffened with gum. A corruption of the French gros-grain.

“Gossips in grief and grograms clad.”

Praed: The Troubadour, canto i. stanza 5.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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