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Chlamys   Listen
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Chlamys  n.  (pl. E. chlamyses, L. chlamydes)  A loose and flowing outer garment, worn by the ancient Greeks; a kind of cloak.





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... I forget the morning when my father, sitting in the coolest part of the house, exchanged his last measure of grain for a chlamys of scarlet cloth, fringed with silver. He watched the merchant out of the door, and then looked wistfully into the cornchest. I, who thought there was something worth seeing, looked in also, and finding it empty, expressed my disappointment, not thinking, ...
— The Glory of English Prose - Letters to My Grandson • Stephen Coleridge


Words linked to "Chlamys" :   cape, floral envelope, calyx, perigone, corolla, covering, natural covering, falls, perianth, plant organ, flower, mantle


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