Noun: grot
Sample Sentences
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She took me to her elfin grot, / And there she wept, and sigh'd full sore, / And there I shut her wild wild eyes / With kisses four. [1819, John Keats, La Belle Dame sans Merci:]
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Those of Luxembourg and Rohan even falsified their genealogies for that purpose; and the house of Sassenage, though it might claim its descent from a monarch, preferred Melusinc, and to gratify them it was feigned that when she quitted Lusignan she retired to the grot of Sassenage, in Dauphiny. [1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume II, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 299:]
Nouns inflected like grot
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From grotto, by shortening, or French grotte. See: French Nouns '
grotte'.