• n. From the French "gros grain". It refers to a coarse silk or wool and mohair fabric, or of these mixed with silk. Often ribbed, stiffened with gum.

• Weaving techniques

• Striped

• Simpson, John; Weiner, Edmund (eds). The Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford : Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1989;[www.oed.com] Tortora, Phyllis, y Ingrid Johnson. The Fairchild Books Dictionary of Textiles, 2015

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