canions

canions

1. plural of canion (“leg clothing”)
   • 1585, J. Higins, Nomenclator:

     Slops or beeches without canions or nether-stocks.

   • 1611, Cotgrave, (Please provide the book title or journal name):

     chausses à queue de merlus — round breeches with strait canions.

   • 1611, R. Richmond, preface to Thomas Coryat, Coryat's Crudities:

     For nought fears he backbiters' nips in doublet or in canions.

   • c. 1615–1657, Middleton, More Dissemblers Besides Women, i. 4.

     Come, you are so modest now, 'tis pity that thou wast ever bred to be thrust through a pair of canions; thou wouldst have made a pretty foolish waiting-woman, but for one thing.

   • 1918, F. M. Kelly, “What are 'canions'?”, in The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs, page 106:

     "Canions" seem to be always associated with wide breeches of the "trunk-hose" class—sc. "French" or "round" hose, generally "paned"—or "gally-gascoynes", and impression definitely confirmed by Covarrubias y Horozco. [...] an article (a) tubular in structure, (b) appended to shortish wide breeches, (c) covering the lower thigh and knee. With these postulates before us we are immediately reminded of a very characteristic feature of masculine costume which makes its appearance in contemporary art just about the date when canions begin to be noticed by writers. […] stockings are depicted as drawn up and secured indifferently outside [Plate, A, (a)] or inside (Figs. 1 and 2B) the canions. […]

   • 2013, Herbert Norris, Tudor Costume and Fashion, Courier Corporation, →ISBN, page 634:

     (Trunk-hose are either worn with long cloth stockings sewn to them, or—from about 1570—they are equipped with canions.) For a while they appear to have lost […] Fig. 633. Canion Nether stocks were 'curiously knitte with open seam down the […]

2. plural of canion (“canyon”)

• Caninos, Cannois, Cansino