sayon
English
Etymology
Old French saye (“serge”)
Cebuano
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sɛ.jɔ̃/, /se.jɔ̃/
Audio (file) - Homophone: seillon
Noun
sayon m (plural sayons)
- (obsolete) cassock, (coarse) jacket
- 1829, Victor Hugo, Le Dernier Jour d'un Condamné, section XIII:
- une froide averse d’automne éclata brusquement, et se déchargea à torrents dans la cour carrée, sur les têtes découvertes, sur les membres nus des galériens, sur leurs misérables sayons étalés sur le pavé.
- A cold autumn shower suddenly broke out, and poured torrentially down on the little square, on the uncovered heads and naked limbs of the convicts, on their miserable cassocks spread out on the cobblestones.
- (historical) sagum
Further reading
- “sayon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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