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Chiton

noun
1.
A woolen tunic worn by men and women in ancient Greece.
2.
Primitive elongated bilaterally symmetrical marine mollusk having a mantle covered with eight calcareous plates.  Synonyms: coat-of-mail shell, polyplacophore, sea cradle.



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"Chiton" Quotes from Famous Books



... this last, hardly intelligible assertion, when the curtain of the room was pushed aside, and in came a short, plump, rosy-faced little maiden of twelve, with a clearly chiselled Greek profile and lips as red as a cherry. Her white chiton was mussed and a trifle soiled; and her thick black hair was tied back in a low knot, so as to cover what were two very shapely little ears. All in all, she presented a very pretty picture, as the sunlight streamed over ...
— A Friend of Caesar - A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. • William Stearns Davis

... nature was thus consulted, would produce, he thought, love and tenderness, instead of the dislike and fear attending an unnatural compulsion; and their bodies, also, would be better able to bear the trials of breeding and of bearing children, in his judgment the one end of marriage. Astolos chiton, the under garment, frock, or tunic, without anything, either himation or ...
— Plutarch's Lives • A.H. Clough



Words linked to "Chiton" :   polyplacophore, coat-of-mail shell, genus Chiton, mollusc, shellfish, mollusk, tunic



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