Sentence examples for groats from inspiring English sources
The word "groats" is correct and often used in written English
It means the hulled and crushed grain of various cereals, especially oats. You can use it in cooking or discussions about food and nutrition. Example: "I prefer to eat oat groats instead of rolled oats in my breakfast porridge for a heartier and more nutritious meal."
If Henry VIII's Grete Paliasse from Hampton Court had been rented out for ten groats a time for the Field of Cloth of Gold Fund, England might still be a Catholic country.
Gold nobles and silver groats were issued by David II in 1356 57 on the standard of Edward III.
"Harp" groats were struck at Dublin under Henry VIII, followed by his much baser issues.
The whole groats are steamed and rolled to make oat flakes.
Steel-cut oats These whole-grain groats havebeen cut into just two or three pieces by steel, rather than being rolled.
Grits, groats, grout, gruel… FOOD tells about an apoplectic fit... Court Counsellor Semyon Petrovich Podtikin sat down at the table, spread a napkin across his chest, and, quivering with… FOOD about a meal of whale pie on a beach in southern England.
In Robert Greene's deathbed tract, Greenes groats-worth of witte, Marlowe is referred to as a "famous gracer of Tragedians" and is reproved for having said, like Greene himself, "There is no god" and for having studied "pestilent Machiuilian pollicie".
When the book in which they appear (Greenes, groats-worth of witte, bought with a million of Repentance, 1592) was published after Greene's death, a mutual acquaintance wrote a preface offering an apology to Shakespeare and testifying to his worth.
Henry VII altered the types of the smaller silver coins by replacing the three-centuries-old cross and pellets by a long cross and shield, while the inscription POSVI DEVM ADIVTOREM MEVM ("I have made God my helper") took the place of the mint legend; the stereotyped bust was replaced on the groat by an excellent profile portrait and on the penny by the king seated.
At the start he lodged with a jobbing painter from Sicily named Lorenzo Siciliano, in whose workshop, says Bellori, "Caravaggio painted heads for a groat apiece and produced three a day".
He also introduced a groat, or fourpenny piece, but this larger coin did not establish itself until Edward III's reign.
