noun
- a lightweight woolen fabric used for linings
Usage: archaic; textile
Examples
- The tailor lined the coat with fine shalloon.
- Shalloon was commonly used in 18th-century garments.
- The merchant imported bolts of shalloon from England.
- Her dress was trimmed with silk but lined with shalloon.
- The old pattern book specified shalloon for the jacket lining.