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chlamys
[ kley-mis, klam-is ]
noun
- a short, fine woolen mantle worn by men in ancient Greece.
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of chlamys1
Example Sentences
His upper body rippled with muscles, covered only by a Greek chlamys - a white wool cloak loosely wrapped and pinned at the shoulder.
Attired with theatrical buskins, a Phrygian cap and a blue chlamys over a transparent tunic, she was taken to the foot of the altar and seated there.
Then he rose swiftly, drew on his day tunic, threw about him the chlamys that Phalaris had worn, and slipped noiselessly from the room.
This figure is nude with the exception of a chlamys which falls down the back and passes in front over the right ankle.
She was painted as Sappho, in a Greek chlamys, with her golden tresses flowing down her shoulders, and her arms bare to the shoulder.
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