pilon

[ pee-lohn ]

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noun

, Southwestern U.S. (chiefly Texas).

1880–85; Americanism; < Mexican Spanish pilón literally, trough, mortar, Spanish: derivative of pila basin, trough < Latin pīla mortar

Then there was J. Alexander Pilon, a New York University student whose involvement in the protest was less calculated.

One also sees in France many works by Germain Pilon, who died in 1590.

An urchin who was looking on offered to go and find Pre Pilon.

Pilon is the psychologist who has the most forcibly demonstrated that resemblance acts before being perceived.

In ten minutes' time he came back, and announced that Pre Pilon was at his breakfast.

Caton met aussi la pile et le pilon, au nombre des meubles rustiques de son temps.

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