zylonEtymologyTrademarked name.nounA synthetic polymer material, a range of thermoset liquid-crystalline polyoxazole developed in the 1980s.“They wore Zylon soft body armor and load-bearing vests accessorized with baton and knife holders […]”An earlier synthetic material.“Like many imaginative men, Alexandre felt that he was not made for the century in which he lived, this epoch of appalling tedium all too little relieved by gadgets, by nickel, aluminum, plastic, celluloid, Bakelite, nylon, zylon.”