Canion

Quick meaning: Canion is a noun meaning Obsolete form of canyon.

Meaning

Obsolete form of canyon.

More Meanings

1. (historical, often in the plural) One of a pair of fitted tubes of cloth worn in Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries below short trunk hose and above stockings to cover the leg in between them, sometimes joined to the hose (sometimes reduced to ornamental rolls terminating the legs of the hose), and sometimes joined to each other as breeches worn under the hose.

Example Sentences

1975, Doreen Yarwood, European Costume: 4000 Years of Fashion, Larousse Kingfisher Chambers […] playing a decorated upper hose or canion beneath on the thigh (510C, H).

Varieties in nether garments introduced during this decade included 'Venetians' and trunk-hose with canion. These introductions, however, did not oust the now familiar trunk-hose which remained in favour until […]

The extraordinary exaggeration of Renaissance trunk hose. Knee-length, easy-fitting canion hose from Italy bedecked the fashionable male thigh, while trunk hose (sometimes gaily partnered with canions) bloomed out over the buttocks .

The men in the room wore silken hose and kid slippers. The blousy canion trousers bulged obscenely, as if the wearer had done something disgraceful in them. The formfitting peascod doublets, all crusted with baubles, added a haughty .

Word Forms

• canions

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include hose, trunkhose, codpiece, boothose, articles, drawers.

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