† chalon Obs.
Also 4–5 chaloun, 5 -one, -un.
[app., as stated by Du Cange, from its place of manufacture, Chalons-sur-Marne, in France. Chalon is not in Godefroy, nor in Cotgrave. Littré has it merely as a modern commercial term ‘a sort of woollen stuff’, and without derivation or historical instances; but he has from Scarron ras de Chalons = shalloon.]
1. A blanket or coverlet for a bed.
| 1301 in Rot. Parl. II. 228–265 Chalons [are mentioned among the household goods of the tradespeople of Colchester]. 1374 Will of Brokelesby (Somerset Ho.), Vnum chalonem. c 1386 Chaucer Reeve's T. 220 A bed With schetys and with chalouns fair i-spred. c 1440 Promp. Parv. 68 Chalun [K.H. or chalone], bedde clothe, thorale, chalo. 1480 Caxton Ovid's Met. xi. xx, Hys bedde was coverd with a chalon. a 1500 Metr. Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 626 Lectus bedde, linthiamen schete, tapetum chalon, culcitra quylte. 1616 Bullokar, Chalons, blankets, Couerings. 1868 [see chaloner]. |
2. Comb., as chalon-maker, chalon-work.
| a 1400 in Eng. Gilds (1870) 351 Þe chaloun..shal habbe in worke þre ellen to-fore þe chaloun-makyere. 1426–7 Will of Talworth (Somerset Ho.), Lectum de chalonwerk. |