Meaning of canions | Babel Free

Definitions

Première personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe caner.

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Examples

“Slops or beeches without canions or nether-stocks.”

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

“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.”

“"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. […]”

“(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 […]”

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