shalloon
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of shalloon
1655–65; < French chalon, after Châlons-sur-Marne, where made
Example Sentences
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The bed in a corner was hung in blue shalloon over ruffled white muslin, and there was blue at the windows.
From The Three Black Pennys A Novel by Joseph Hergesheimer
It was comfortably hung with a sort of warm-coloured worsted, manufactured in Scotland, approaching in trexture to what is now called shalloon.
From The Bride of Lammermoor by Sir Walter Scott
Other dress materials besides those named above were cambric, linen, cotton, osnaburgs, negro cotton, book-muslin, ermin, nankeen, persian, Turkey cotton, shalloon, and swanskin.
From Two Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1 (1620-1820) by Alice Morse Earle
We could see at every house a tenter, and on almost every tenter a piece of cloth or kersie or shalloon....
From The Armies of Labor A chronicle of the organized wage-earners by Samuel Peter Orth
A Chaloner or Chawner dealt in shalloon, Mid.
From The Romance of Names by Ernest Weekley
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