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fauchon

fauchon is the obsolete form of falchion.

Meaning of falchion

Noun

falchion (plural falchions)

  1. (also, attributive) A somewhat curved, single-edged medieval sword of European origin, with the cutting edge on its convex side, whose design is reminiscent of the Persian scimitar and the Chinese dao.
    • I haue seene the day, with my good biting Faulchionc. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
  2. (obsolete) A billhook.

See all 3 meanings of falchion

Forms of fauchon

pluralfauchons

Origin of fauchon

Borrowed from French fauchon, from Old French fauchon (cognate with Italian falcione), from Vulgar Latin *falciōnem, from Latin falx. See also -on.

Questions about fauchon

What is fauchon the obsolete form of?
Fauchon is the obsolete form of falchion.

Words near fauchon in the dictionary

  1. Faucheux
  2. Faucheuxes
  3. fauching
  4. fauchion
  5. fauchions
  6. fauchon
  7. fauchons
  8. Fauci
  9. Fauci ouchie
  10. Fauci ouchies
  11. faucial

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fauchon (page history and authors); falchion (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.

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