The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chalon \Cha"lon\, n.
A bed blanket. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.
Wiktionary
n. one of a series of postage stamp series whose illustration was inspired by a portrait of Queen Victoria by Alfred Edward Chalon (1780–1860). More formally known as the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalon%20head. n. 1 One of eight divisions of the Ohlone Native American people of northern California native to the Salinas Valley. 2 The spoken language of this people, an Ohlone dialect in the Utian family.
Usage examples of "chalon".
The sheets were as fine as silk, and the Chalons blankets as soft as fur--far different from the rude Witney fabric which had hitherto been his only covering.
Structural GenomiX in San Diego, California, and Chalon Biotech in Toronto are founded on developing so-called high-throughput x-ray crystallographic techniques.
Bar-le-duc and Chalons was no doubt more blood-curdling to our eighteenth-century ancestors than it is to us, who have become acquainted with scores of similar situations in the small number of exciting romances which belong to literature, and in the greater number which do not.
Tyrolese had walked abroad to view the town--found means to hire a peasant, who undertook to conduct him through a by-road as far as Chalons, and with his guide he accordingly set out on horseback, after having discharged the bill, left a blank paper sealed up in form of a letter, directed to his friend, and secured behind his own saddle a pair of leathern bags, in which his jewels and cash were usually contained.
With Nancy and Bar-leDuc sliding along, the scenes begin to assume a French character, and soon we perceive Chalons and ancient Rheims.
Crown Prince of Saxony was marching on Chalons, and that the Crown Prince of Prussia was marching on Metz.
The hero's night in the wood between Bar-le-duc and Chalons was no doubt more blood-curdling to our eighteenth-century ancestors than it is to us, who have become acquainted with scores of similar situations in the small number of exciting romances which belong to literature, and in the greater number which do not.
Ferdinand, therefore, taking the advantage of his companion's absence--for the Tyrolese had walked abroad to view the town--found means to hire a peasant, who undertook to conduct him through a by-road as far as Chalons, and with his guide he accordingly set out on horseback, after having discharged the bill, left a blank paper sealed up in form of a letter, directed to his friend, and secured behind his own saddle a pair of leathern bags, in which his jewels and cash were usually contained.
At Chalons I was put upon the Saone, thence I passed on to the Rhone, whence I descended, merely with the current, to Arles.
The following morning they arrived at Chalons, where the count's steamboat waited for them.
Chalons and Macon were undoubtedly within the original jurisdiction of the Aedui.