DCHP-1 Online
assean arsean, arsian, azion [< Algonk.] 
n. a breechclout.
- 1743 (1949) a Cloth for the private parts Ar-se-an.
- 1801 (1927) [He wears] a strip of cloth or leather, called assian, about a foot wide, and five feet long, whose ends are drawn inwards and hang down behind and before, over a belt tied round the waist for that purpose.
- 1931 My man dressed himself in the habit of a voyageur, that is, a short shirt, a red woolen cap, a pair of deerskin leggings which reached from the ankles a little above the knees, and are held up by a string secured to a belt about the waist, the azion . . . of the Indians, and a pair of deerskin moccasins without stockings on the feet.
- 1743 (1949) a Cloth for the private parts Ar-se-an.