galloon

From French galon, from galonner (“to braid”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɡəˈluːn/

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.
   • 1918, Abraham Yarmolinsky, translating Ivan Bunin, 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.

• gallooned

• → Irish: galún

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