"melton" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "From Melton Mowbray, where this material was made.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "meltons",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "melton (countable and uncountable, plural meltons)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1914, Saki, ‘The Lull’, Beasts and Superbeasts",
          "text": "‘Two of the boys are wearing your Melton overcoat; I hope you don't mind.’",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, Skiing Heritage Journal, volume 14, number 4, page 31",
          "text": "Skiwear has moved swiftly away from wool — and cotton — into a brave new world of chemistry. […] Wool pants or knickers, usually of melton — a thick, tightly woven, smooth fabric — were good for shedding snow.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A tough, short-napped material used for making overcoats."
      ],
      "id": "en-melton-en-noun-rzLJYrO5",
      "links": [
        [
          "tough",
          "tough"
        ],
        [
          "nap",
          "nap"
        ],
        [
          "overcoat",
          "overcoat"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Melton Mowbray"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈmɛlt(ə)n/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɛltən"
    }
  ],
  "word": "melton"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "From Melton Mowbray, where this material was made.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "meltons",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "melton (countable and uncountable, plural meltons)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English 2-syllable words",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "Rhymes:English/ɛltən",
        "Rhymes:English/ɛltən/2 syllables"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1914, Saki, ‘The Lull’, Beasts and Superbeasts",
          "text": "‘Two of the boys are wearing your Melton overcoat; I hope you don't mind.’",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, Skiing Heritage Journal, volume 14, number 4, page 31",
          "text": "Skiwear has moved swiftly away from wool — and cotton — into a brave new world of chemistry. […] Wool pants or knickers, usually of melton — a thick, tightly woven, smooth fabric — were good for shedding snow.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A tough, short-napped material used for making overcoats."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "tough",
          "tough"
        ],
        [
          "nap",
          "nap"
        ],
        [
          "overcoat",
          "overcoat"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Melton Mowbray"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈmɛlt(ə)n/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɛltən"
    }
  ],
  "word": "melton"
}