Obs. rare. Apparently a corruption of chaufron, shawfron, CHAMFRAIN; perh. confused with the heraldic CHEVRON.
c. 1420. Anturs of Arth., xxx. His stede … was trapput to the hele. Opon his cheueronne be-forn, Stode as a vnicorn Als scharpe as a thorn An nanlas of stele.
