Etymology

sayon

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Today it means: A medieval peasant's sleeveless jacket. Full definition →

Old French saye
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The story

  1. Old French · derived fromsaye“serge”
  2. English todaysayon

From Old French saye (“serge”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.