Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A lightweight wool or worsted twill fabric, used chiefly for coat linings.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A light woolen stuff used for the linings of coats and for women's dresses.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A thin, loosely woven, twilled worsted stuff.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
fabric of tightly wovenwool , mainly used for thelinings of articles of clothing. - noun historical A band for tying the tail of a
wig , made of such material.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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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.
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"Akeelah" is touted on the sleeves slipped onto the Starbucks cups (it sells 4 million beverages daily), emblazoned with obscure words like "shalloon," a lightweight wool fabric used for coat linings.
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SPEAKS GOOD ENGLISH, is remarkably tall and stout made, has a large mark on her right cheek where she has been burnt; she had on her a blue negro cloth jacket and coat, a blue shalloon gown, a red and white cotton handkerchief round her head, a blue and white ditto about her neck, and a pair of men's shoes, and a ditto men's clowded stockings.
The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916 Various
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E E E are each priming charges of seven grains of pistol powder, made up in shalloon bags to insure the ignition of the bursting charge, which is in a bag of serge and shalloon beneath.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 586, March 26, 1887 Various
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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.
The Three Black Pennys A Novel Joseph Hergesheimer 1917
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We could see at every house a tenter, and on almost every tenter a piece of cloth or kersie or shalloon ....
The Armies of Labor A chronicle of the organized wage-earners Samuel Peter Orth 1897
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I have little further to say of Mr Knapps, except that he wore a black shalloon loose coat; on the left sleeve of which he wiped his pen, and upon the right, but too often, his ever-snivelling nose.
Jacob Faithful Frederick Marryat 1820
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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.
The Bride of Lammermoor Walter Scott 1801
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You must also send me a fine cloth jockey coat of same colour with the wastecoat & breeches, lin'd with a fine shalloon of same colour & trim'd plain, onely a button with same sort of that with the wastecoat, but propor - tionably bigger.
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