Talk:toison

English?
Webster 1913 suggests that this can also be an English word for a sheep's fleece. I can't seem to attest it. Equinox ◑ 00:19, 27 April 2015 (UTC)


 * OED has it under the obsolete form toyson, used as short for toison d'or (the order of knighthood), and citations:
 * a1505  in C. L. Kingsford Chron. London (1905) 230   Other honourable personages in Ambassade, as his second Chamberlayn and Knyght of the Toyson.
 * 1548  Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. xiijv,   The lord Bresley knight of the Toyson.
 * 1601  R. Johnson tr. G. Botero Travellers Breviat (1603) 244   There is also the order of the Toysone, of which his maiestie is chiefe.
 * Ƿidsiþ 07:50, 27 April 2015 (UTC)