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English
Etymology
Old French saye (“serge”)
Noun
sayon (plural sayons)
- (historical) A medieval peasant's sleeveless jacket.
Anagrams
Cebuano
Adjective
sayon
- easy, simple, effortless
- Antonym: lisod
French
Etymology
Probably from saie + -on.
Pronunciation
Noun
sayon 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
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