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Galloot vs Galloon - What's the difference?

galloot | galloon |

As nouns the difference between galloot and galloon

is that galloot is while galloon is a braided trimming with bullion thread, used on men's coats in the eighteenth century, on women's apparel in the nineteenth, and on such furnishings as draperies or cushions.

galloot

English

Noun

(en noun)

    • galloon

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A braided trimming with bullion thread, used on men's coats in the eighteenth century, on women's apparel in the nineteenth, and on such furnishings as draperies or cushions.
  • *1918 , Abraham Yarmolinsky, translating (Ivan Bunin), The Gentleman from San Francisco :
  • *:And when the "Atlantis" had finally entered the port and all its many-decked mass leaned against the quay, and the gang-plank began to rattle heavily, — what a crowd of porters, with their assistants, in caps with golden galloons , what a crowd of various boys and husky ragamuffins with pads of colored postal cards attacked the Gentleman from San Francisco, offering their services!
  • *1982 , (TC Boyle), Water Music , Penguin 2006, p. 194:
  • *:His hair is tied back with a it of silver galloon , and he is dressed with panache in a blue velvet jacket, white silk hose, buckled pumps.

    • Derived terms

    * gallooned