cañon

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See also: canon, cànon, ĉanon, cânon, and cañón

English

Noun

cañon (plural cañons or cañones)

  1. Alternative spelling of canyon
    • 1879, Arthur Pendarves Vivian, Wanderings in the western land:
      […] we walked some little distance up the cañon on the frozen river […]
    • 1912 January, Zane Grey, chapter 5, in Riders of the Purple Sage […], New York, N.Y., London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC:
      He was only proving what the sage-riders had long said of this labyrinthine system of deceitful cañons and valleys—trails led down into Deception Pass, but no rider had ever followed them.
    • 2010, Agnes C Laut, Through Our Unknown Southwest (Illustrated Edition) (page 100)
      the cañons and upland pine parks and snowy peaks and cliff dwellings round Flagstaff

Anagrams

French

Noun

cañon m (plural cañons)

  1. Alternative spelling of canyon
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