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graham

[grey-uhm, gram]

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adjective

made of graham flour.

Origin:
1825–35

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graham (ˈɡreɪəm)

—n
	chiefly (US), (Canadian) (modifier) made of graham flour: graham crackers

[C19: named after S. Graham (1794--1851), American dietetic reformer]

Graham (ˈɡreɪəm)

—n
1.	Martha. 1893--1991, US dancer and choreographer
2.	Thomas. 1805--69, British physicist: proposed Graham's law (1831) of gaseous diffusion and coined the terms osmosis, crystalloids, and colloids
3.	William Franklin, known as Billy Graham. born 1918, US evangelist

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Graham

crackers, etc., from unsifted whole-wheat flour, 1834, Amer.Eng., from Sylvester Graham (1794-1851), U.S. dietetic reformer and temperance advocate. The family name is attested from 1127, an Anglo-Norm. form of the place name Grantham (Lincolnshire).

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