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noun

Chiton n.

An under garment among the ancient Greeks, nearly representing the modern shirt.

(Zool.) One of a group of gastropod mollusks, with a shell composed of eight movable dorsal plates. See Polyplacophora.

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Etymology of 'Chiton'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Chiton" Quotes from Famous Books

... in the afternoon when she heard a ring at the door and the editor's brother's voice in the hall. Poetess as she was, or as she thought herself, she had not been too sublime that day to dress with infinite trouble in a fashionable robe of rich material, having a faint resemblance to the chiton of the Greeks, a style just then in vogue among ladies of an artistic and romantic turn, which had been obtained by Ella of her Bond Street dressmaker when she was last in London. Her visitor entered the drawing-room. She looked towards his rear; nobody else came through ...

— Wessex Tales • Thomas Hardy

... Drapery, as the ancients understood it in the delicate plaits of Greek chiton and tunic, in the grand folds of Roman toga, the fifteenth century could not show; it knew only the stiff, scanty raiment of the active classes; the shapeless masses of lined cloth of the merchants and magistrates; the prudish and ostentatious starched dress of the women; ...

— Euphorion - Being Studies of the Antique and the Mediaeval in the - Renaissance - Vol. I • Vernon Lee

... master of my own pen, and could write as I pleased, without being hurried along helter-skelter by the tyrannical exactions of that "young Rapid" in buskins and chiton called "THE HISTORIC MUSE," I would break off this chapter, open my window, rest my eyes on the green lawn without, and indulge in a rhapsodical digression upon that beautifier of the moral life which is called "Good Temper." Ha! the Historic Muse is dozing. ...

— What Will He Do With It, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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