groute

English

Noun

groute (countable and uncountable, plural groutes)

1. Obsolete spelling of grout.
   • 1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 224:

     It is related of a Nis, who had established himself in a house in Jutland, that he used every evening, after the maid was gone to bed, to go into the kitchen to take his groute, which they used to leave for him in a wooden bowl.

Anagrams

• trogue, rouget