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grille en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ɡɹɪl/
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Etymology

Borrowed from French grille.

Meanings

1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of grill (only in the senses of "grating over opening", "grating on the front of a vehicle", and "window divider")
   alt of grill
   • 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:
2. A 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.

Forms

Deriveds

grillework · grille guard · Cardan grille · Fleissner grille · grilled