2. Verb. (third-person singular of groom) ¹
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Definition of Grooms
1. groom [v] - See also: groom
Lexicographical Neighbors of Grooms
Literary usage of Grooms
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by Hampshire Record Society, Winchester, Winchester Hampshire Record Society, Queensland Palaeontographical Society (1897)
"Alexander de Sandale, two horses and two grooms. ... the Bishop's Marshal], twelve
horses, three valets and three grooms. ..."
2. Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII by Great Britain Public Record Office, John Sherren Brewer, Robert Henry Brodie, James Gairdner (1864)
"Thynne, chief clerk, and 2 other clerks, 3 master cooks, 7 yeomen, 7 grooms.
The Larder.—John Dale, serjeant, 1 clerk, 3 yeomen, 4 grooms, 2 pages. ..."
3. Annual Report by Indiana State Board of Health (1906)
"The grooms under 20 years old numbered 766, and the brides, 6479; ... The American-
born grooms and brides numbered 23804 and 24049, respectively, ..."
4. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1920)
"The defendants were JJ grooms and Mrs. Bell P. grooms. Pending the suit JJ grooms
died, and AJ Gibbs, as temporary administrator of his estate, was, ..."
5. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"... in the charge of his perfidious groom Myrtilus, who contrived that it should
break down in the running, that of Pelops tended by his grooms. ..."
6. The Life and Death of Cardinal Wolsey by George Cavendish (1905)
"labourers, and children as they called them; a yeoman of his scullery, and two
other in his silver scullery ; two yeomen of his pastry, and two grooms. ..."
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