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grillion

/ ˈɡɪə /

noun

  1. often plural an extremely large but unspecified number, quantity, or amount

    he had grillions more goes than me

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


determiner

  1. amounting to a grillion

    a grillion years old

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Origin of grillion1

C20: on the model of million
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You know about Grillion's, where men dine without quarrelling, and where, by a pleasant fiction, no bore is supposed to live.

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“He told me at Grillion's that I thereby made him chancellor of the exchequer.”

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He was frequently to be seen at the Athenaeum, was a member both of Grillion’s and The Club, as well as of the Literary Society, of which he was president, and whose meetings he very rarely missed.

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The American headquarters in Paris during the Peace Conference were in the Hotel Grillion, which is on the Place de la Concorde in the heart of the city.

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Here Louis XVIII. lodged in 1814, and Grillion's Club, formed 1813, had its meetings.

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