"Grogran" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Grogram that she was told that another wife was living," said Sir William. Grogram was an old butler who had been in the old Earl's ...
— Lady Anna • Anthony Trollope
... flavoured. The history of grog is more complicated. The stuff called grogram, earlier grograyne, is from Fr. gros grain, coarse grain. Admiral Vernon (18th century) was called by the sailors "Old Grog" from his habit of wearing grogram breeches. When he issued orders that the regular allowance of rum was henceforth to be diluted with water, the sailors promptly baptized ...
— The Romance of Words (4th ed.) • Ernest Weekley |
