Lionel Blairs; lionels noun flares (trousers with flared legs) UK Rhyming slang, formed from the name of the UK dancer and entertainer (b.1931).
— Ray Puxley, CockneyRabbit, 1992
[T]he jolly old sawn-off went out with sideboards and radiograms, three-piece whistles with twenty-four inch lionels[.] — J.J. Connolly, Layer Cake, p. 8, 2000