Crossword clues for chian
chian
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chian \Chi"an\a. [L. chius, fr. Chios the island Chios, Gr. ?.] Of or pertaining to Chios, an island in the [AE]gean Sea.
Chian earth, a dense, compact kind of earth, from Chios, used anciently as an astringent and a cosmetic.
Chian turpentine, a fragrant, almost transparent turpentine, obtained from the Pistacia Terebinthus.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"pertaining to the Greek island of Chios," 1630s. The island name is of uncertain origin, perhaps related to Greek khion "snow."
Usage examples of "chian".
And never, never, never let me go again within spitting distance of a Chian, or that vile island called Chios!
After an accident to his flagship caused by a Chian ship, King Mithridates VI of Pontus ever after harbored a huge grudge against Chios and Chians.
There, cavorting and frolicking in the hot mineral pools amid petrified crystal waterfalls tumbling down the cliffs, he succeeded in forgetting all about the laughter of Rhodesand Chian ships which gave him the fright of his life.
At the desk was a Chian somewhat older than the three who had abducted nese m Marissa and Tristan.
I want bread and cheese, an omelette, a couple of beef cutlets, and a drink of Chian wine at once!
Instead, Pompey drew up the second-best chair and seated himself only after pouring wine from the flagon containing a Chian vintage so fine that Hortensius had wept in frustration when Pompey beat him to it.
Multiply nine thousand five hundred by twenty-five, and you have two hundred and thirty-seven thousand five hundred flagons of an unparalleled collection of Falernian, Chian, Fucine, Samian.
Falernian white to accompany the fishier, more nibbly first course, a superb Chian red to accompany the meaty, more substantial main course, and a sweetish, slightly effervescent white wine from Alba Fucentia to accompany the desserts and cheeses which formed the third, final course.
Gaius Marius in all the vulgar ostentation of a gold-and-purple Chian outfit.
Gaius Marius, oblivious to the fact that his Chian tapestry drape had flopped itself all the wrong way.
Marius, forgetting his Chian finery and sitting down on a bench of white unpolished marble.
We were very ignorant indeed, he said, for some had made him a Chian, others a native of Smyrna, others of Colophon, but that after all he was a Babylonian, and amongst them was called Tigranes, though, after being a hostage in Greece, they had changed his name to Homer.
Among the Greek wines, so much admired by ancient Epicures, those of the islands of the Archipelago were the most celebrated, and of these the Chian wine, the product of Chios, bore away the palm from every other, and particularly that which was made from vines growing on the mountain called Arevisia, in testimony of which it were easy, if necessary, to produce an amphora full of classical quotations.
Falernian white to accompany the fishier, more nibbly first course, a superb Chian red to accompany the meaty, more substantial main course, and a sweetish, slightly effervescent white wine from Alba Fucentia to accompany the desserts and cheeses which formed the third, final course.
Multiply nine thousand five hundred by twenty-five, and you have two hundred and thirty-seven thousand five hundred flagons of an unparalleled collection of Falernian, Chian, Fucine, Samian.