sayon
English
editEtymology
editFrom Old French saye (“serge”).
Noun
editsayon (plural sayons)
- (historical) A medieval peasant's sleeveless jacket.
Anagrams
editCebuano
editAdjective
editsayon
- easy, simple, effortless
- Antonym: lisod
French
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editNoun
editsayon 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
edit- “sayon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Categories:
- English terms derived from Old French
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English terms with historical senses
- Cebuano lemmas
- Cebuano adjectives
- French terms suffixed with -on
- French 2-syllable words
- French terms with IPA pronunciation
- French terms with audio pronunciation
- French terms with homophones
- French lemmas
- French nouns
- French countable nouns
- French masculine nouns
- French terms with obsolete senses
- French terms with quotations
- French terms with historical senses
- fr:Clothing