shalloon
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of shalloon
1655–65; < French chalon, after Châlons-sur-Marne, where made
Example Sentences
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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 Scott, Walter, Sir
A Chaloner or Chawner dealt in shalloon, Mid.
From The Romance of Names by Weekley, Ernest
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 Earle, Alice Morse
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 Orth, Samuel Peter
The wig and even the pigtail tied with black shalloon were abandoned by all but a few old folk.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume" by Various
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