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  • noun Plural form of grille.

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Examples

  • Co. Its building products unit, which last year accounted for 24% of group sales, consists of its air distribution business that manufactures and sells commercial and residential air-handling components such as grilles and vents, and its Aquatic bath ware business, which makes bath tubs and shower enclosures, among other things.

    Tomkins Agrees to Deal 2010

  • Vacuum grilles and registers inside the home to ensure good airflow.

    Damage control: 5 problems caused by the wicked winter weather 2011

  • I would have liked to go to live music events, chilling with my friends, but then I looked at the big metal grilles on the windows and remembered I was incarcerated.

    Henry’s Demons Patrick Cockburn 2011

  • Salt water fishing is the best, ou should also find Red Snapper, Amberjack and Grouper all fun to catch, also try netting mullet (when I lived there they had stands on the beach that sold smoked mullet, the best tasting fish I have ever had other than grilles Sockey Salmon caught in Alska!) +1 Good Comment?

    hey guys im back, i just graduated boot camp,im headed to pensacola fl. 2009

  • Outside, a CCTV camera twists silently, monitoring the movements of residents, its lens protected from bricks and stones by metal grilles.

    Britain's not working Amelia Gentleman 2010

  • One side pictures a monastery, with windows protected by iron grilles.

    If These Plates Could Talk Richard Snow 2011

  • Conceptually similar to GM's AUTOnomy fuel-cell concept of 2002, the i8—like its urban-EV sibling, the i3—is radically different in one respect: BMW says it is actually going to build it, virtually as it appears in concept-car form, complete with its semitransparent body panels, butterfly doors, glowing blue grilles and laser headlights.

    Twiki, Bring the Car Around Dan Neil 2011

  • Now I'll never know why your window grilles were going into storage ...

    The Post That Got Away deliasherman 2010

  • Dividing the compounds is an open-air courtyard; along one side is a walkway lined with wood grilles that give a latticed feel and allows the light to filter in the pattern of stripes.

    A Blended Beach House Nancy Keates 2011

  • Because we're on the almost-ground-floor of an apartment in NYC, so the huge almost-graceful iron bars came with the apt. overlooking the park, and we thought we didnt 'mind them, but when the building had all the windows replaced & the grilles were off for several weeks we realized that we felt much less depressed every time we looked out the window so we petitioned to have the removal permanent.

    The Post That Got Away deliasherman 2010

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