▪ I. † ˈchawdron Obs. or arch.
Forms: 5 chaudoun, -on, -yn, -ern, -ron, chawdon, -wyn, chawdewyne, chaundron, 6 chauden, 7 chauder, chawdre, chawthern, chaldern(e, 7–8 chawdron, chaldron.
[ME. chaudoun, a. OF. chaudun (caldun, caudun):—L. type caldunum, cf. med.L. caldūna, (‘de novem ovibus fiunt fercula quæ vocantur caldunæ, Du Cange’); app. a deriv. or compound of calid-us hot, but the latter part of the word is obscure. In MLG. kaldûne, mod.G. kaldaune-n. In later Eng. corrupted app. by form-assoc. with chaldron. (See also chowder.)]
† 1. A kind of sauce, consisting of chopped entrails, spices, and other ingredients. Obs.
| c 1420 Liber Cocorum (1862) 9 Chaudoun for wylde digges, swannus, and piggus. c 1440 Anc. Cookery in Househ. Ord. (1790) 441 Chaudern for Swannes. c 1460 J. Russell Bk. Nurture 535 in Babees Bk. (1868) 152 To signet & swann, convenyent is þe chawdoun. Ibid. 688 Swan with the Chawdwyn. 1469 Ord. R. Househ. 96 Garbages of swannes, the chaundron made sufficiently. 1603 Holland Plutarch's Mor. 680 Blamangers, jellies, chawdres, and a number of exquisit sauces. 1615 Markham Eng. Hous-w. (1660) 77 This is called a Chauder or Gallantine, and is a sawce almost for any Fowl whatsoever. |
2. Entrails of a beast, esp. as used for food. arch.
| 1578 Lyte Dodoens v. xviii. 572 The second kind of Letuce hath crompled leaues..drawen togither almost like the Moquet or Chauden of a calfe. 1604 Dekker Honest Wh. Wks. 1873 II. 40 Calves chaldrons and chitterlings. 1605 Shakes. Macb. iv. i. 33 Adde thereto a Tigers Chawdron, For th' Ingredience of our Cawdron. 1607 Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1658) 70 The chawthern, the head, and the feet of Calves. 1611 Cotgr., Fraise, also, a calues chaldern. 1658 Sir T. T. de Mayerne Archimag. Anglo-Gall. No. 51. 44 To make a Pudding of Calves-Chaldrons. 1727 Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Calf's Chaldron, The Chaldron is also eaten in a Court Bouillon, or Broth. 1798 Progr. Man 26 in Anti-Jacobin 19 Feb., How Lybian tigers' chawdrons love assails. |
3. comb. Chathernwise: see chathern.
▪ II. chawdron
obs. form of chaldron.