Meanings
plural grilles
- alternativeAlternative form of grill (only in the senses of "grating over opening", "grating on the front of a vehicle", and "window divider")
The house was a big elaborate limestone affair, evidently new. Winter sunshine sparkled on lace-hung casement, on glass marquise, and the burnished bronze foliations of grille and door.
1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter I, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC - computingA rectangular stencil allowing words to be written, then read, through its apertures, with the text further disguised by filling the remaining space with irrelevant words.
Synonyms & antonyms
nounsmall opening (like a window in a door) through which business can be transacted
nouna framework of metal bars used as a partition or a grate
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Frenchgrille
- Frenchgrille
- Englishgrille
Borrowed from French grille.
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grille. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/grille
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