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▪ I. † rattoon1 Obs. rare. [ad. F. raton, earlier raston, reston (13th c.): see raston.] A kind of cheese-cake.
1656Marnettè Perfect Cook 148 You must..fill this your said Puff-paste with the same ingredients wherewithall you do make your Cheese Cakes, and accordingly you may cause your said Rattoon to be baked. ▪ II. † rattoon2 Obs. Also 7 -ton. [var. racoon. Cf. F. raton in same sense.] A racoon.
1656[H. More] Second Lash Alaz. 274 A fellow of a fit size to show the Lions and the Rattoon at the Tower. 1668Charleton Onomasticon 14 Vulpes Americana Mapach dicta, Anglicè Ratton. 1704W. Cowper in Phil. Trans. XXV. 1569 The Coati of Brasil and Virginia, or the Rackoon or Rattoon. 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Rattoon, a kind of Fox in the West Indies [etc.]. 1755in Johnson (citing Bailey). ▪ III. rattoon obs. variant of rattan. |