shalloon

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  1. noun A lightweight wool or worsted twill fabric, used chiefly for coat linings.

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  1. French chalon, after Châlons-sur-Marne .

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  1. from Middle English chalon, chaloun, a coverlet (see chalon) (= Spanish chalon, chalun = MHG, schalūne, German schalun, shalloon), from Old French chalons (cf. French ras de Châlons, Chalons cloth), so called from Chalons, French Châlons-sur-Marne, a town in France, from Latin Catalauni, a tribe that lived in the neighborhood. For similar cloth-names of local origin, see cambric, muslin, worsted, etc.
 

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