Small class of marine mollusks comprising the chitons; sometimes considered an order of the subclass Amphineura.
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Examples for "chiton "
Examples for "chiton "
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.
1 Stately priests in long chitons paced to the music of flutes.
2 They finished it in reverent silence and, wiping their mouths on their chitons , lay back.
3 Especially in the case of primitive chitons , deep-sea molluscs whose body format has changed little for tens of millions of years.
1 Fortunately the wind had tired itself out and fallen asleep in the great sea cradle beyond the dunes.
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