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  • noun Plural form of galloon.

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Examples

  • Right Concentration: Ten bushels of dried corn (ground to meal) to nine gallons of water to half a bushel of barley to two galloons of hops.

    A Bland and Deadly Courtesy skzbrust 2009

  • Norman horses with their tails knotted up, false galloons, varnished hat, long powdered locks, an enormous whip and tall boots.

    Les Miserables 2008

  • Among the audience there was a wealthy retired merchant, who was somewhat of a usurer, named M. Geborand, who had amassed two millions in the manufacture of coarse cloth, serges, and woollen galloons.

    Les Miserables 2008

  • Working with the English couturier Worth, she tweaked the passementeries, galloons, and fringes on her dresses and drove the ladies mad.

    THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005

  • The chamber door opened quickly then, and there was Louis XVI, already fat, pretending to be asleep on a state bed, in a long crimson waistcoat trimmed with gold galloons, his shirt open where he was to be anointed with the holy ampula.

    THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005

  • The chamber door opened quickly then, and there was Louis XVI, already fat, pretending to be asleep on a state bed, in a long crimson waistcoat trimmed with gold galloons, his shirt open where he was to be anointed with the holy ampula.

    THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005

  • Working with the English couturier Worth, she tweaked the passementeries, galloons, and fringes on her dresses and drove the ladies mad.

    THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005

  • The chamber door opened quickly then, and there was Louis XVI, already fat, pretending to be asleep on a state bed, in a long crimson waistcoat trimmed with gold galloons, his shirt open where he was to be anointed with the holy ampula.

    THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005

  • Working with the English couturier Worth, she tweaked the passementeries, galloons, and fringes on her dresses and drove the ladies mad.

    THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005

  • In fact, the _clavi_ were purple galloons, with which the Romans bordered the fore part of the tunic, on both sides, and when drawn close together, they formed an ornament in the middle of the vestment.

    A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements Caius Cornelius Tacitus

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