canion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: canions
Etymology: As a term for clothing, apparently from Spanish cañón (“tube; cannon; canyon”); as a term for canyon, certainly from there.
Senses: examples: text: 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 […]
ref: 1950, Jack Eric Morpurgo, Life Under the Tudors:
text: 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).
text: ... and pickardevant came over with an Italian marqueshe, and was worne (as I remember) with the shorte Rownd hose, and the long canion by the worthy earle of Pancridge Alderman of lye, when I was a boye & long after and had yt bine in ...
ref: 1999 (quoting an earlier work), Martin Butler, Re-Presenting Ben Jonson: Text, History, Performance, Springer, page 138
text: ... Collins herself to be wearing what I should imagine are meant to be canion and hose, rather than bloomers as you describe them. And do bear in mind, Nanny sweet, whatever costume Edward is wearing at present it is only for the play.
ref: 2011, Charlotte Bingham, Debutantes: (Debutantes: 1): a delightful and stylish saga focusing on the battle for love, power, money and privilege from bestselling author Charlotte Bingham, Random House, →ISBN, page 181:
text: (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 […]
ref: 2013, Herbert Norris, Tudor Costume and Fashion, Courier Corporation, →ISBN, page 634:
text: 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 ...
ref: 2015, Lucy Adlington, Stitches in Time: The Story of the Clothes We Wear, Random House, →ISBN:
text: This band was known as a canion. Depending on the cut of the hose, it could be either long or short. Sometimes the canions were worn over the stockings that covered the legs, and at other times the stockings were pulled on top of them ...
ref: 2015, José Blanco F., Patricia Kay Hunt-Hurst, Heather Vaughan Lee, Mary Doering, Clothing and Fashion: American Fashion from Head to Toe [4 volumes]: American Fashion from Head to Toe, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 35:
text: 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 ...
ref: 2017, Susan Wiggs, The Tudor Rose Trilogy Collection: An Anthology, MIRA, →ISBN:
glosses: 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.
glosses: Obsolete form of canyon.