galloon

Noun

galloon (countable and uncountable, plural galloons)

1. 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...1918, Ivan Bunin, translated by Abraham Yarmolinsky, The Gentleman from San Francisco
   • 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.1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 194