"melton" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "From Melton Mowbray, where this material was made.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "meltons",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      },
      "expansion": "melton (countable and uncountable, plural meltons)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
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          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
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      "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": "quote"
        },
        {
          "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": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "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 countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "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": "quote"
        },
        {
          "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": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "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"
}