The story
- French · borrowed fromgros-grain“coarse grain, a strong fabric”
- English todaygrosgrain
Borrowed from French gros-grain (“coarse grain, a strong fabric”), from gros (“coarse”) + grain (“grain”). Doublet of grogram, which was borrowed earlier.
Words from the same roots
Frenchgros-grain all →
grogram
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.