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1textiletoponymshalloon, woolen cloth first produced in Châlons-sur-Marne (now Châlons-en-Champagne), coarse cloth, frieze:
(
c.1275; MS: c.1275
)
nul de la cité ne doit fere uverer bureaus ne chaluns dehors les murs de la cité
Winchester2 28.10
(
1272-90
)
lez uvere les buraus de la vile […] devoit rendre […] chescun ustil des granz chalons .xij. deners e des petiz .vj. deners
TNA SC 8/149/7429
♦domesticblanket, bedspread or hanging made of this material:
(
1189
) Pannos pictos, qui vocantur chaluns
MED chaloun n.