toison
See also: toisón
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
toison (plural toisons)
- (heraldry) A fleece.
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:toison.
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French edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Late Latin tōnsiōnem, from Latin tondeō (“shave, cut hair”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
toison f (plural toisons)
- fleece
- mop (of hair); mane
- (slang) muff, pubes (especially of a woman)
- 1985, José Pierre, Qu'est-ce que Thérèse ?, page 78:
- Je n’en avais pas moins l’impression bizarre que c’était sa toison intime que Thérèse exhibait aussi ostensiblement aux yeux du promeneur !
- Nonetheless, I had a strange feeling that it was her pubic hair Theresa was displaying so publicly to the eyes of the passers-by!
- (slang) the hair of a man's torso
- 2000, Philippe Delaroche, Caïn et Abel avaient un frère, page 403:
- Abondante, sa toison pileuse bouffe jusqu’à mi-cou, faisant comme un col roulé.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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Further reading edit
- “toison”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.