Cic"la*toun` (?), n. [Of. ciclaton.]

A costly cloth, of uncertain material, used in the Middle Ages.

[Obs.] [Written also checklaton, chekelatoun.]

His robe was of ciclatoun, That coste many a Jane. Chaucer.

 

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