When Jeanne Griot was born on 30 January 1758, in San Germano, San Germano, Turin, Piedmont, Italy, her father, Jean Griot, was 27 and her mother, Marguerite Bounous, was 24.
English (southern): apparently from the Middle English abstract noun grist ‘grinding’, Old English grist, a derivative of grindan (see Grinder ), so possibly a metonymic occupational name for a miller. The word was not used in the concrete sense of grain to be ground until the 15th century.
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