haillon
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Either from Middle High German hadel + -on, or from hailles + -on.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (aspirated h) IPA(key): /a.jɔ̃/ ~ /ɑ.jɔ̃/
Audio (Paris): (file) - Rhymes: -ɔ̃
- Homophones: haillons, hayon
Noun
[edit]haillon m (plural haillons)
- rag
- 1895, Émile Verhaeren, “La ville”, in Les villes tentaculaires:
- Dehors, une lumière ouatée, / Trouble et rouge, comme un haillon qui brûle, / De réverbère en réverbère se recule. / La vie, avec des flots d’alcool est fermentée.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Further reading
[edit]- “haillon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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