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canion (複数形 canions)

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.
   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:canions.
   • 1950, Jack Eric Morpurgo, Life Under the Tudors:

     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 […]

   • 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).

   • 1999 (quoting an earlier work), Martin Butler, Re-Presenting Ben Jonson: Text, History, Performance, Springer (→ISBN), page 138:

     ... 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 ...

   • 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:

     ... 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.

   • 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 […]

   • 2015, Lucy Adlington, Stitches in Time: The Story of the Clothes We Wear, Random House, →ISBN:

     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 ...

   • 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:

     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 ...

   • 2017, Susan Wiggs, The Tudor Rose Trilogy Collection: An Anthology, MIRA, →ISBN:

     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 ...

2. Obsolete form of canyon.

Further reading

• 2011, Doreen Yarwood, Illustrated Encyclopedia of World Costume, Courier Corporation, →ISBN, page 64:

  Cannons, canons, canions In the second half of the sixteenth Century these were tube-like breeches, worn by men, tightly-fitting over the thigh and extending from the lower edge of the short trunk hose to the knee.

• 2013, Mary Brooks Picken, A Dictionary of Costume and Fashion: Historic and Modern, Courier Corporation, →ISBN, page 44:

  Originally, decorative extension of trunk hose, usually in form of horizontal folds below knees. Formerly called cannons. Also tight, close-fitting knee breeches extending below trunk hose.

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