Primitive elongated bilaterally symmetrical marine mollusk having a mantle covered with eight calcareous plates.
Sinònims
Examples for "chiton"
Examples for "chiton"
1She is dressed in a heavy Doric chiton, open at the side.
2The boy covered his face with his ragged chiton and wept.
3He was perfumed and pretty, his pale blue chiton far shorter than her own.
4The clothes she wore were no longer stola and palla, but chiton and himation.
5The marvellous stone belonged to the fabulous past; the imprisoned chiton to the prosaic present.
1Fortunately the wind had tired itself out and fallen asleep in the great sea cradle beyond the dunes.
Translations for coat-of-mail shell