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A woolen tunic worn by men and women in ancient Greece
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chiton
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in 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 ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in 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''.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
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 ...
WordNet
Word definitions in 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 ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in 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 ...
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.