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Chlamys vs Chlaina - What's the difference?

chlamys | chlaina |

Chlaina is likely misspelled.


Chlaina has no English definition.

As a noun chlamys

is a short cloak caught up on the shoulder, worn by hunters, soldiers, and horsemen in Ancient Greece.

chlamys

English

(wikipedia chlamys)

Noun

(chlamydes)
  • (historical) A short cloak caught up on the shoulder, worn by hunters, soldiers, and horsemen in Ancient Greece.
  • * 1844 , (Walter Savage Landor), ‘Æsop and Rhosope’, Imaginary Conversations :
    • He unfolded the chlamys , stretched it out with both hands before me, and then cast it over my shoulders.
  • * 1977 , Mary Carol Sturgeon, Sculpture: the Reliefs from the Theater , p. 38:
    • A male god stands in three-quarter view to right, wearing a chlamys fastened at his right shoulder with a round clasp.

    See also

    * peplos, peplum * exomis * himation * chiton

    chlaina

    Not English

    Chlaina has no English definition. It may be misspelled.

    English words similar to 'chlaina':

    celoma, calluna, cholemia