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galloons

galloons is the plural of galloon.

Meaning of 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

Questions about galloons

What is galloons the plural of?
Galloons is the plural of galloon.

Words near galloons in the dictionary

  1. galloner
  2. galloners
  3. gallons
  4. galloon
  5. gallooned
  6. galloons
  7. galloot
  8. galloots
  9. gallop
  10. gallopade
  11. gallopaded

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