galloon
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galloon (countable and uncountable, plural galloons)
- A braided trimming with bullion thread, used on men's coats in the eighteenth century, on women's apparel in the nineteenth, and on such furnishings as draperies or cushions.
- 1918, Ivan Bunin, translated by Abraham Yarmolinsky, The Gentleman from San Francisco:
- And when the "Atlantis" had finally entered the port and all its many-decked mass leaned against the quay, and the gang-plank began to rattle heavily, — what a crowd of porters, with their assistants, in caps with golden galloons, what a crowd of various boys and husky ragamuffins with pads of colored postal cards attacked the Gentleman from San Francisco, offering their services!
- 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 194:
- His hair is tied back with a bit of silver galloon, and he is dressed with panache in a blue velvet jacket, white silk hose, buckled pumps.
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- → Irish: galún
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