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▪ I. † ˈchaton1, chatton Obs.
[a. F. chaton kitten, catkin, dim. of chat cat.]
A catkin.
1578Lyte Dodoens vi. lvi. 730 [The walnut tree] bringeth foorth long tentes or yellowe ragged things..hanging vpon the tree, like smal Cattes tayles..longer then the Chattons of Whythie..After these tentes or Catkens, the leaues showe.
▪ II. chaton2|ˈʃatɔ̃|
Also 6 chatton.
[Fr., ad. G. kasten (OHG., MHG. kasto).]
The head or broadest part of a finger-ring, in which a stone or intaglio is set or upon which a device is engraved.
1578Inv. R. Wardr. (1815) 265 A chaton without a stane. Ibid. 267 A chatton without ane emerauld. 1880C. T. Newton Art & Archæol. 269 The intaglio on the oval chaton of the other gold ring presents an equally strange subject. 1883in Sayce Schliemann's Troja Pref. 20 The double-headed axe is..engraved on the famous chaton of the ring discovered by Dr. Schliemann at Mykênæ. 1968J. Ironside Fashion Alphabet 169 Chaton, that part of a ring in which the stone is set. |