galloon

American  

[guh-loon] / gəˈlun /

noun

1. a braid or trimming of worsted, silk or rayon tinsel, gold or silver, etc., usually having scalloping along both edges.

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galloon British  

/ ɡəˈluːn /

noun

1. a narrow band of cord, embroidery, silver or gold braid, etc, used on clothes and furniture

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Other Word Forms

• gallooned
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of galloon

1595–1605; < Middle French galon, Old French galonner to adorn one's head with ribbons, derivative of gale gala

Example Sentences

Men of business wore waistcoats trimmed with silver galloon.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson

“With a little jacket trimmed with galloon, and that petticoat of tobine. Given the chills on the river.”

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

One day, sitting solitary at his wools, it occurred to the weaver of the early Fifteenth Century to spill some of his flowers out upon the dark galloon that edged his work.

From The Tapestry Book by Candee, Helen Churchill Hungerford, Mrs.

Sir Oliver.—That ye did! and bowels which would have stowed within them all the plate on board of a galloon.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1843 by Various

Their blouses were red, with a golden galloon around the neck, and they were so much alike that one could hardly be recognized from another.

From Folk Tales from the Russian by Various