sb. pl. Obs. Also calsoun, -sound, -sune. [From one or other of the Romanic langs.: F. calçons, caleçons, Sp. calzones, Pg. calções, It. calzoni breeches, drawers:—late L. calciones: augmentative forms of L. *calcea, Sp. calza, Pg. calça, It. calza, F. chausse hose, f. L. calceus shoe, half-boot.] Drawers, hose, trousers: used of those of oriental nations.
1615. G. Sandys, Trav., 63. The next that they weare is a smock of callico, with ample sleeves…: vnder this a paire of calsouns of the same, which reach to their ancles.
1656. Blount, Glossogr., Calsounds or Calsunes, a kind of drawers or such like garment of Linnen, which the Turks wear next their skin.
1677. Sir T. Herbert, Trav., 115. The better sort of that sex here wear linen Drawers or Calzoons.
