Obs. Also cheveron. [app. an error for CHEVEREL (but Cotgr. has ‘chevron kid’): cheveron in Old French was a stuff containing goat’s hair. Sir W. Scott, in his use of the word, probably merely followed quot. 1754.] ‘A glove’ (Jamieson); app. meant for: Kid-glove.
1754. Sir J. Scott, Stagger. State of Sc. Statesm., 50 (Jam.). Sir Gideon by chance letting his chevron fall to the ground, the king, altho’ being both stiff and old, stooped down and gave him his glove.
1818. Scott, Hrt. Midl., viii. A black pair o’ cheverons! Ibid. (1826), Woodst., III. 200. This is not dirt on the cheveron, but blood. Ibid. (1828), F. M. Perth, v. I … am sorry for that poor lover who will never wear right-handed chevron again.
