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Meanings of chiton in English
Portuguese
polyplacophora Catalan
poliplacòfor Primitive elongated bilaterally symmetrical marine mollusk having a mantle covered with eight calcareous plates.
Usage of chiton in English
1
She is dressed in a heavy Doric chiton, open at the side.
2
The boy covered his face with his ragged chiton and wept.
3
He was perfumed and pretty, his pale blue chiton far shorter than her own.
4
The clothes she wore were no longer stola and palla, but chiton and himation.
5
The marvellous stone belonged to the fabulous past; the imprisoned chiton to the prosaic present.
6
She ran off without waiting for a reply but returned quickly, clutching a scarlet chiton.
7
At these words the steward's hand dropped from the chiton of the half- throttled dealer.
8
Ioel's chiton had been covered with little muddy handprints.
9
A Greek lady again cannot imitate her husband, and appear in public in her chiton only.
10
The himation is even simpler than the chiton.
11
He tore his chiton from top to bottom and wrapped it about his mouth and nose.
12
Quick, Selene, throw the chiton round me again.
13
He pulled a clean chiton and breeches from his footlocker and went out into the kitchen.
14
Over the chiton is the aegis, much less long behind than in earlier art (cf.
15
No shirts (unless the chiton be one), no underwear.
16
The woolen chiton of her countrywomen draped a figure almost too slender, yet perfect in its delicate modeling.
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Chiton through the time