"canions" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1585, J. Higins, Nomenclator:",
          "text": "Slops or beeches without canions or nether-stocks.",
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          "ref": "1611, Cotgrave, (Please provide the book title or journal name):",
          "text": "chausses à queue de merlus — round breeches with strait canions.",
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          "ref": "1611, R. Richmond, preface to Thomas Coryat, Coryat's Crudities",
          "text": "For nought fears he backbiters' nips in doublet or in canions."
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          "text": "c. 1615–1657, Middleton, More Dissemblers Besides Women, i. 4.\nCome, 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."
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          "ref": "1918, F. M. Kelly, “What are 'canions'?”, in The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs, page 106:",
          "text": "\"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. […]",
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          "ref": "2013, Herbert Norris, Tudor Costume and Fashion, Courier Corporation, →ISBN, page 634:",
          "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 […]",
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          "text": "Slops or beeches without canions or nether-stocks.",
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          "ref": "1611, Cotgrave, (Please provide the book title or journal name):",
          "text": "chausses à queue de merlus — round breeches with strait canions.",
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        },
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          "text": "\"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. […]",
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