Species of mollusc (fossil)
Primitive elongated bilaterally symmetrical marine mollusk having a mantle covered with eight calcareous plates.
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.
6She ran off without waiting for a reply but returned quickly, clutching a scarlet chiton.
7At these words the steward's hand dropped from the chiton of the half- throttled dealer.
8Ioel's chiton had been covered with little muddy handprints.
9A Greek lady again cannot imitate her husband, and appear in public in her chiton only.
10The himation is even simpler than the chiton.
11He tore his chiton from top to bottom and wrapped it about his mouth and nose.
12Quick, Selene, throw the chiton round me again.
13He pulled a clean chiton and breeches from his footlocker and went out into the kitchen.
14Over the chiton is the aegis, much less long behind than in earlier art (cf.
15No shirts (unless the chiton be one), no underwear.
16The woolen chiton of her countrywomen draped a figure almost too slender, yet perfect in its delicate modeling.