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.)]

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  † 1.  A kind of sauce, consisting of chopped entrails, spices, and other ingredients. Obs.

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c. 1420.  Liber Cocorum (1862), 9. Chaudoun for wylde digges, swannus, and piggus.

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c. 1440.  Anc. Cookery, in Househ. Ord. (1790), 441. Chaudern for Swannes.

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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.

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1469.  Ord. R. Househ., 96. Garbages of swannes, the chaundron made sufficiently.

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1603.  Holland, Plutarch’s Mor., 680. Blamangers, jellies, chawdres, and a number of exquisit sauces.

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1615.  Markham, Eng. Hous-w. (1660), 77. This is called a Chauder or Gallantine, and is a sawce almost for any Fowl whatsoever.

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  2.  Entrails of a beast, esp. as used for food. arch.

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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.

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1604.  Dekker, Honest Wh., Wks. 1873, II. 40. Calves chaldrons and chitterlings.

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1605.  Shaks., Macb., IV. i. 33. Adde thereto a Tigers Chawdron, For th’Ingredience of our Cawdron.

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1607.  Topsell, Four-f. Beasts (1658), 70. The chawthern, the head, and the feet of Calves.

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1611.  Cotgr., Fraise, also, a calues chaldern.

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1658.  Sir T. Mayerne, Archimag. Anglo-Gall., No. 51. 44. To make a Pudding of Calves-Chaldrons.

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1727.  Bradley, Fam. Dict., s.v. Calf’s Chaldron, The Chaldron is also eaten in a Court Bouillon, or Broth.

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1798.  Progr. Man, 26, in Anti-Jacobin, 19 Feb. How Lybian tigers’ chawdrons love assails.

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  3.  comb. Chathernwise: see CHATHERN.

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