Meaning of GROLIER
Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| Definition: | | \Gro"lier`\, n.
The name by which Jean Grolier de Servier (1479-1565), a
French bibliophile, is commonly known; -- used in naming a
certain style of binding, a design, etc.
{Grolier binding}, a book binding decorated with a pattern
imitated from those given covers of books bound for Jean
Grolier, and bearing his name and motto.
{Grolier} {design or school}, the pattern of interlacing
bars, bands, or ribbons, with little scrolls of slender
gold lines, assumed to be an imitation of the designs on
Jean Grolier's book bindings.
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