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plural chitons or chitones
(historical) A loose woolen tunic worn by men and women in Ancient Greece. quotations
On the night of our first attempt, we simply overdrank and passed out in our chitons in the woods near Francis’s house.
1992, Donna Tartt, The Secret History
She wears a diaphanous himation that covers her torso, over a floor-length chiton of heavier fabric.
1998, Colette Susan Czapski, “NM238: A Hellenistic Statue and Its Archaistic Support”, in Kim J. Hartswick, Mary Carol Sturgeon, editors, Stephanos: Studies in Honor of Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway, page 53
She wears a chiton and himation, using both hands to hold the edge of the latter, in which she has gathered apples.
2002, chapter I, in Nikolaos Kaltsas, editor, Sculpture in the National Archaeological Museum, Athens, page 156
plural chitons
Any of various rock-clinging marine molluscs of the class Polyplacophora, including the genus Chiton. quotations examples
In the giant chiton, Cryptochiton, this girdle has expanded so as to completely cover the plates.
1969, Sam Hinton, chapter I, in Seashore Life of Southern California, page 72
The chiton (Fig. 14.1 a) is depressed (dorso-ventrally flattened), with a large foot which has a flat sole.
1979, R. McNeill Alexander, chapter I, in The Invertebrates, page 295
The bright orange gumboot chiton (Cryptochiton stelleri) is the largest in the world.
1996, Paul Henson, chapter I, in The Natural History of Big Sur, page 70