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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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... dying youth. We know little of the details of the feast; incidentally, that Apollo was vested on the occasion in a purple robe, brought in ceremony from Lacedaemon, woven there, Pausanias tells us, in a certain house called from that circumstance Chiton. You may remember how sparing these Lacedaemonians were of such dyed raiment, of any but the natural and virgin colouring of the fleece; that purple or red, however, was the colour of their royal funerals, as indeed Amyclae itself was famous for purple stuffs—Amyclaeae vestes. As [230] the general ...
— Plato and Platonism • Walter Horatio Pater


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


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