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 staff,’ 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, Reeves 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, -work.
a. 1400. in Eng. Gilds (1870), 351. Þe chaloun … shal habbe in worke þre ellen to-fore be chaloun-makyere.
1426–7. Will of Talworth (Somerset Ho.). Lectum de chalonwerk.
