grout

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One inexplicably popular trend was puns on the word grout, which started with The Grout Escape painted under the railway bridge in Shoreditch.

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  1. noun A thin mortar used to fill cracks and crevices in masonry.
  2. noun A thin plaster for finishing walls and ceilings.
  3. noun Chiefly British Sediment; lees. Often used in the plural.
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  • The tiles were orange with white grout, a popular color scheme when the house had been built in the seventies, but now was tacky. —  Karin Slaughter - Kisscut
  • After all grout was applied I removed the masking tape, cleaning up any tile edges and any irregularities in the setting of the mix. —  BC Bloggers
  • Includes a Concentrator tool to give a directed steam jet for the difficult places such as grout lines, around the cooker, and stains. —  lipstick.com: celebrity news that matters to you
  • With a double-sided tip and filled with bleach gel, it's designed to brighten up tile grout or to dab out tiny stains on clothing. —  azcentral.com | news
  • Once the slate is ready to grout, be sure to apply a grout-release liquid on the top of the slate tiles. —  AskTheBuilder.com
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  1. Middle English, grain used for making malt, mud, from Old English grūt, coarse meal.

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  1. from Middle English grout, growte, growtt, ground malt, the first infusion preparatory to brewing, also a kind of ale or mead. from Anglo-Saxon grūt, grout (in first sense), = Middle Dutch grauwt (as in Middle English) = Norwegian grūt, sediment, grounds; cf. Middle High German grūz, German grauss = Swedish dial. grut, sand, gravel, grit: see grit. The sense of ‘meal’ is not found in Middle English, but occurs in Anglo-Saxon (transitive L. pollen or pollis) and in Middle Dutch, and is reflected in Middle Latin grutum, grudum, meal, diminutive gruttellum, gruellum, gruellus (later ult. English gruel, q. v.), the same as grutum, grudum, grout for brewing. Allied to Anglo-Saxon gryt, grytt, plural grytta, grytte, coarse meal, grits: see grit and grout, n.
  2. Not found, in this sense, in Middle English or Anglo-Saxon, being a modern use of grout; cf. grit, coarse sand, etc., as related to grit, coarse meal.
  3. from grout, n.
  4. Perhaps ‘root in the mud,’ from grout, n.,
 

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