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  • noun Plural form of shalloon.

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Examples

  • Aberdeen hose, Edinburgh shalloons, and the like, for our woollen or worsted goods --- and we hae linens of a 'kinds better and cheaper than you hae in Lunnon itsell --- and we can buy your north o' England wares, as Manchester wares, Sheffield wares, and Newcastle earthenware, as cheap as you can at

    Rob Roy 1887

  • We are not told the prices of tammies or durants, romals or molletons, cades or shalloons, but we are always carefully informed that they may be had at the lowest prices.

    Picturesque Quebec : a sequel to Quebec past and present 1868

  • Worsted goods formerly consisted chiefly of bombazets, shalloons, calamancoes, lastings for ladies 'boots, and taminies.

    Rides on Railways Samuel Sidney 1848

  • Edinburgh shalloons, and the like, for our woollen or worsted goods -- and we hae linens of a 'kinds better and cheaper than you hae in Lunnon itsell -- and we can buy your north o' England wares, as Manchester wares,

    Rob Roy — Complete Walter Scott 1801

  • Edinburgh shalloons, and the like, for our woollen or worsted goods -- and we hae linens of a 'kinds better and cheaper than you hae in Lunnon itsell -- and we can buy your north o' England wares, as Manchester wares,

    Rob Roy — Volume 02 Walter Scott 1801

  • A very great manufacture of ratteens at Carrick-on-Suir; the bay worsted is for serges, shalloons, etc. Woollen yarn for coarse cloths, which latter have been lost for some years, owing to the high price of wool.

    A Tour in Ireland 1776-1779 Arthur Young 1780

  • Aberdeen hose, Edinburgh shalloons, and the like, for our woollen or worsted goods — and we hae linens of a’ kinds better and cheaper than you hae in Lunnon itsell — and we can buy your north o’

    Rob Roy 2005

  • This yielded him the Bailie’s account of Glasgow commerce “in Musselburgh stuffs and Edinburgh shalloons,” and the phrase “sortable cargoes.”

    Rob Roy 2005

  • "In addition to the carpet making," she says in the Manuscript Memoir of her life, "we carried on the manufacture of shalloons and plainbacks, the whole of which I managed myself, so far as putting out the warps and weft, and taking in from the weavers.

    Thrift Samuel Smiles 1858

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