chiton

Noun

chiton (plural chitons or chitones)

1. A loose woolen tunic, worn by both men and women in Ancient Greece.
   • 1992, Donna Tartt, The Secret History:

     On the night of our first attempt, we simply overdrank and passed out in our chitons in the woods near Francis’s house.

   • 1998, Colette Susan Czapski, NM238: A Hellenistic Statue and Its Archaistic Support, Kim J. Hartswick, Mary Carol Sturgeon (editors), Stephanos: Studies in Honor of Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway, page 53,

     She wears a diaphanous himation that covers her torso, over a floor-length chiton of heavier fabric.

   • 2002, Nikolaos Kaltsas (editor), chapter I, in Sculpture in the National Archaeological Museum, Athens‎, page 156:

     She wears a chiton and himation, using both hands to hold the edge of the latter, in which she has gathered apples.

References

• American Heritage Dictionary (fourth edition, 2000) entry on the chiton

Noun

chiton (plural chitons)

1. Any of various rock-clinging marine molluscs of the class Polyplacophora, including the genus Chiton.
   • 1969, Sam Hinton, chapter I, in Seashore Life of Southern California‎, page 72:

     In the giant chiton, Cryptochiton, this girdle has expanded so as to completely cover the plates.

   • 1979, R. McNeill Alexander, chapter I, in The Invertebrates‎, page 295:

     The chiton (Fig. 14.1 a) is depressed (dorso-ventrally flattened), with a large foot which has a flat sole.

   • 1996, Paul Henson, chapter I, in The Natural History of Big Sur‎, page 70:

     The bright orange gumboot chiton (Cryptochiton stelleri) is the largest in the world.