galloon

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
8
Words With Friends
12
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/ɡəˈluːn/ (UK)

Definition of galloon

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)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.
    “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!”
    “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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Etymology

From French galon, from galonner (“to braid”).

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