ingrain

Meanings

Verb

• To dye with a fast or lasting colour.
• To make (something) deeply part of something else.

Adjective

• Dyed with grain, or kermes.
• Dyed before manufacture; said of the material of a textile fabric; hence, in general, thoroughly inwrought; forming an essential part of the substance.

Noun

• An ingrain fabric, such as a carpet.

Origin

• Inherited from Middle English engreynen, from the French phrase en grain; reinforced by the phrase (dyed) in grain. See grain.