cañón

plural cañóns

1. alternativeAlternative form of canyon.

   In those early days the grasses in the cañóns grew high.

   2000, Lou Sage Batchen, “Life in the Old Houses: Part VI. Hunts of the Old Days. June 9, 1939”, in Tey Diana Rebolledo, María Teresa Márquez, editors, Women’s Tales from the New Mexico WPA: La Diabla a Pie (Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage), Houston, Tex.: Arte Público Press, →ISBN, part II (Lou Sage Batchen), chapter 6 (Placitas), page 192

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   The Reduction Works stand on the brow of the first terrace; here the plain of the valley disappears, and north of us the valley takes the shape of a cañón, narrowing down.

   1970, Adolph F[rancis] Bandelier, edited by Charles H. Lange, Carroll L. Riley, and Elizabeth M. Lange, The Southwestern Journals of Adolph F. Bandelier, volume [2] (1883–1884), Albuquerque, N.M.: University of New Mexico Press, →ISBN, page 188

   She compares the grandness and age of a California mission to the cañón, an archetypal image of the Southwest landscape.

   2009, Leah Garland, “Cherríe Moraga’s Writing Toward Difference”, in Contemporary Latina/o Performing Arts of Moraga, Tropicana, Fusco, and Bustamante (Modern American Literature; 44), New York, N.Y.: Peter Lang, →ISBN, page 35