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grazet(t Now rare.
Also 7 gras-, gresett, 8 grazzet.
[? corruption of F. grisette, a cheap woollen stuff of grey colour.]
A kind of woollen stuff.
1696Lond. Gaz. No. 3181/4 An Orange and Black Gresett Gown lined with Black. Ibid. No. 3199/4 A Grasett Mantua Gown black and white, lined with black Silk. 1701Ibid. No. 3701/4 Mercery Goods, viz... Estemines, Russels,..Elatches, Grazets. 1719D'Urfey Pills (1872) I. 222 Tho' Grazzet she wears. 1719J. Roberts Spinster 346 Some of them [sc. stuffs] are quite lost, and thrown out of sale, such as..flowered grazetts. 1745in J. F. Watson Ann. Philad. (1830) 179 (Advt.), Turkettees, grassetts, [etc.]. 1894A. M. Earle Costume Colonial Times 120 Grazzets, a dress-stuff appearing in lists in the [Boston] News Letter from 1712 to 1768, often specified as ‘changeable grazzets’. 1933E. Sitwell Five Variations 2 To make more glittering the gowns of these Smooth nymphs that wear a grazet petticoat. |