Word.ws English Dictionary

chanlon

chanlon noun: a type of cloth of the 13th century.

Noun

chanlon (plural chanlons)

  1. (historical) A type of cloth of the 13th century.
    • Winchester itself was an early centre of the manufacture of chanlons, which were rugs used for coverlets or counterpanes, and in the consuetudinary of the city, which dates back at least to the early years of the thirteenth century, the looms are divided into two classes, the 'great looms' used for...1964, L. F. Salzman, English Industries of the Middle Ages, page 200

Forms of chanlon

pluralchanlons

Questions about chanlon

What does chanlon mean?
Chanlon means a type of cloth of the 13th century.
What part of speech is chanlon?
Chanlon is a noun.
What is the plural of chanlon?
The plural of chanlon is chanlons.

Words near chanlon in the dictionary

  1. chanking
  2. chankings
  3. chankonabe
  4. chanks
  5. chanky
  6. chanlon
  7. chanlons
  8. chanmery
  9. channa
  10. channa daal
  11. channa dahl

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: chanlon (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “chanlon.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/chanlon. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.