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chiton
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chiton \Chi"ton\, n. [Gr. ? a chiton (in sense 1).]
An under garment among the ancient Greeks, nearly representing the modern shirt.
(Zo["o]l.) One of a group of gastropod mollusks, with a shell composed of eight movable dorsal plates. See Polyplacophora.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mollusc genus, 1816, from Latinized form of Greek khiton "frock (worn by both sexes), tunic, mail coat" (see chitin). Used in English in literal sense of "ancient Greek tunic" from 1850. The molluscs also are known as "coat-of-mail shells" for their mail-like covering.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. A loose, woolen tunic, worn by both men and women in Ancient Greece. Etymology 2
n. Any of various rock-clinging marine molluscs of the class Polyplacophora, including the genus ''Chiton''.
WordNet
n. a woolen tunic worn by men and women in ancient Greece
primitive elongated bilaterally symmetrical marine mollusk having a mantle covered with eight calcareous plates [syn: coat-of-mail shell, sea cradle, polyplacophore]
Wikipedia
Chitons are marine molluscs of varying size in the class Polyplacophora, formerly known as Amphineura. About 940 extant and 430 fossil species are recognized.
They are also sometimes known as sea cradles or "coat-of-mail shells", or more formally as loricates, polyplacophorans, and occasionally as polyplacophores.
Chitons have a shell composed of eight separate shell plates or valves. These plates overlap slightly at the front and back edges, and yet articulate well with one another. Because of this, the shell provides protection at the same time as permitting the chiton to flex upward when needed for locomotion over uneven surfaces, and even allows the animal to curl up into a ball when dislodged from rocks. The shell plates are encircled by a skirt known as a girdle.
A chiton ( Greek: χιτών, khitōn) was a form of clothing in Ancient Greece, worn by both sexes, but especially men. It is a sewn garment, unlike the female peplos, a draped garment held on the shoulders by a fibula.
There are two forms of chiton, the Doric chiton and the later Ionic chiton. The Doric style was simpler and had no sleeves, being simply pinned, sewn, or buttoned at the shoulder. The Ionic style was made of a much wider piece of fabric, and was pinned, sewn, or buttoned all the way from the neck to the wrists and the excess fabric gathered by the zone or girdled at the waist. By the late Archaic, Ionic chitons had become more common, especially for men.
Chiton is a genus of chitons, a polyplacophoran mollusk in the family Chitonidae.
Usage examples of "chiton".
Xanthus all but one of the Amazons spun round, flipped up her chiton and down her tights, mooned meward.
There, among anemones and chitons and crabs, floated a half-dozen bits of paper, some still twisted up, some relaxed and drifting like leaves.
I intoned, dressed again in the chiton Io had kept for me, crowned with a few wildflowers and girded with my belt of manhood.
Beside this scroll, I discovered a chiton among weapons and armor I felt were mine, and I covered the woman with it.
Eurykles reached into the neck of his chiton and produced a leather purse.
I read because I noticed the scroll in this chest today when I got out a clean chiton, and I thought if ever I needed to write something I would use it.
Basias laid his sword belt on the table and took off his cuirass, then pulled his own chiton over his head.
Constantius shook out a silk chiton dyed the true, imperial purple, and held it out to me.
I would put his hand on the other, or under her chiton, which she wore in the Amazonian manner.
I unbuckled her chiton and pulled down her spotted tights, ripped and dirtied from her fall: despite bruise and brush-burn, her thighs were lean and smooth to touch, her parts altogether female: neat and dainty, lightly fleeced.
I cleaned her up and put her clothes in order, saving only the armored chiton as evidence for Iobates.
The minute I stepped out this afternoon with this chiton on, you see, their lobbyists approached me as a convert, and we worked all this out.
Dressing in a clean full-length chiton of dark green, she sat by the window waiting for midnight.
Swinging his legs from the bed, he waited while the servant brought him a clean chiton and a fur-lined hooded coat.
The swordsman was dressed in a long grey chiton, his white hair held in place by a black leather band edged with silver.