ingrain
adjEtymology Inherited from Middle English engreynen, from the French phrase en grain; reinforced by the phrase (dyed) in grain. See grain.
1
Dyed with grain, or kermes.
2
Dyed before manufacture; said of the material of a textile fabric.
3
Broadly, Figuratively Thoroughly inwrought; forming an essential part of the substance.
- When were such changes ever made in men's natural relations to one another: when was such reconcilement of ingrain differences ever effected!1855 December – 1857 June, Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1857, →OCLC, 1st book (Poverty), page 249:
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