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ac⋅ton

  [ak-tuhn]
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–noun Armor.
a quilted garment worn under mail in the 13th and 14th centuries; gambeson.
Also, ackton, aketon.

Origin:
1250–1300; ME < AF aketoun, OF a(u)queton < OSp algodon < SpAr < Ar al-quṭun the cotton

Ac⋅ton

  [ak-tuhn]
–noun
1. Lord (John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron), 1834–1902, English historian.
2. a former municipal borough in SE England, now part of the London borough of Ealing: center of Puritanism at the time of Cromwell.
3. a city in NE Massachusetts. 17,544.
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