galloon
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /ɡəˈluːn/
galloon
- 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, Abraham Yarmolinsky, translating Ivan Bunin, [https://web.archive.org/web/20140811201712/http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=%2Ftexts%2Fenglish%2Fmodeng%2Fpublicsearch%2Fmodengpub.o2w 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 2006, p. 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.
- 1918, Abraham Yarmolinsky, translating Ivan Bunin, [https://web.archive.org/web/20140811201712/http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=%2Ftexts%2Fenglish%2Fmodeng%2Fpublicsearch%2Fmodengpub.o2w The Gentleman from San Francisco]:
- Italian: gallone
- Russian: наши́вка
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