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 woven wool, mainly used for the linings 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

[French chalon, after Châlons.]

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Examples

  • 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 2008

  • "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.

    A Starbucks Jolt to the Big Screen 2007

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.

    Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society 1792

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