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Galloon   Listen
noun
Galloon  n.  
1.
A narrow tapelike fabric used for binding hats, shoes, etc., sometimes made ornamental.
2.
A similar bordering or binding of rich material, such as gold lace. "Silver and gold galloons, with the like glittering gewgaws."





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"Galloon" Quotes from Famous Books



... than before; little shopkeepers, instead of amassing their profits, become more luxurious in their table: public places are always full; and those who used, in a dress becoming their station, to occupy the "parquet" or "parterre," now, decorated with paste, pins, gauze, and galloon, fill the boxes:—and all this destructive prodigality is excused to others and themselves "par ce que ce n'est que du papier." [Because it is only paper.]—It is vain to persuade them to oeconomize what they think a few ...
— A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, • An English Lady


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