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† Canion, cannion, canon. World English Historical Dictionary

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† Canion, cannion, canon. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1893, rev. 2025. † Canion, cannion, canon Obs. Forms: 6 cannyon, 6–7 canion, canyon, 7–8 cannion; also 6–7 canon, 7 cannon. [In form canion, a. Sp. cañon tube, pipe, gun-barrel, ‘the cannions of breeches’ (= F. canon, It. cannone), augmentative of caña, It. canna tube: see CANNON. The F. form canon was also used in the same sense.]

1   pl. Ornamental rolls, sometimes indented, sometimes plain or straight, laid like sausages round the ends of the legs of breeches.

2 1583.  Stubbes, Anat. Abus. (1877), 56. Hose … with Canions annexed reaching down beneath their knees.

3 1598.  Henslowe, Diary, April (Fairholt). A payer of paned hose … drawne out with cloth of silver and canyons to the same. Ibid. Hose … laid with silver lace and canons of cloth of silver.

4 1611.  Cotgr., Chausses à queue de merlus, round breeches with strait cannions.

5 1660.  Pepys, Diary, 24 May. Made myself as fine as I could, with the linning stockings on and wide canons.

6 1677.  Songs Costume (1849), 182. By thy dangling pantaloons, And thy ruffling port cannons.

7 1706.  Phillips, Cannions, old fashioned ornament for the Legs.

8 1834.  Planché, Brit. Costume, 266. Closer-fitting hose … with the canions, or canons attached.

9 1860.  Fairholt, Costume, 412. Canions…. They … are constantly seen in portraits of Henry III. of France and his court.

10   Hence Canioned a., having canions.

11 1607.  Dekker & Webster, Northw. Hoe, II. i. Wks. 1873, III. 20. The bragging velure-caniond hobbi-horses.

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