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galón

/ɡaˈlon/

noun, masculine/ɡaˈlon/plural: galones

English or American gallon (a unit of liquid measure equivalent to 4.55 or 3.79 L)

Borrowed from English gallon.

noun, masculine/ɡaˈlon/plural: galones

braid; stripe, chevron

tres galones en su uniformethree stripes on his/her uniform

Borrowed from French galon, from Late Latin galum, galus (“measure of wine”), from Vulgar Latin *galla (“vessel”), possibly from Gaulish [Term?], ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kel- (“goblet”).

galón — Spanish Dictionary | Passage