sayonn.
/ˈseɪɒn/, U.S. /ˈseɪˌɑn/ Now historical and rare.
A sleeveless jacket or cassock made of rough fabric or skin, worn by shepherds, rural labourers, and others. Also occasionally: = sagum n.
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1802 tr. C. F. P. Masson Secret Mem. Court Petersburg (new ed.) II. 363 In the most severe cold, the breast of the Russian is uncovered, for his tunic and his sayon [Fr. sayon], cut in the Greek style, are without a collar or cravat.
a1843 R. Southey Common-place Bk. (1849) 2nd Ser. 342 Pietro della Valle describes the Aba as worn by the Persians and Arabs. He says it is a sayon open in front, and without sleeves.
1890 G. Saintsbury tr. H. de Balzac Chouans i. 13 From the neck downwards he was wrapped in a sarrau—a kind of smock-frock in red linen coarser still than that of the poorest conscripts' wallets and breeches..in which an antiquary might have recognized the saga, saye, or sayon of the Gauls.
1914 tr. G. Leroux Secret of Night xvi. 301 There were also men from the country, with their skins of beasts, their sayons, their touloupes.
1972 L. M. Fox Costume of S. Europe iii. 25 (caption) Working smock or sayon.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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