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grout  (grout)
n.
1.
a. A thin mortar used to fill cracks and crevices in masonry.
b. A thin plaster for finishing walls and ceilings.
2. Chiefly British Sediment; lees. Often used in the plural.
tr.v. grout·ed, grout·ing, grouts
To fill or finish with a thin mortar or plaster.
[Middle English, grain used for making malt, mud, from Old English grt, coarse meal.]
grouter n.
grouts [graʊts]
pl n
1. Chiefly Brit sediment or grounds, as from making coffee
2. (Cookery) a variant of groats


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There was not one straight floor from the foundation to the roof; the ceilings were so fantastically clouded by smoke and dust, that old women might have told fortunes in them better than in grouts of tea; the dead-cold hearths showed no traces of having ever been warmed but in heaps of soot that had tumbled down the chimneys, and eddied about in little dusky whirlwinds when the doors were opened.
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