chlamys

WOTD – 31 May 2011    

English

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Etymology

From Ancient Greek χλαμύς.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈklamɪs/

Noun

chlamys (plural chlamydes)

1. (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.

Translations

short cloak

• Catalan: clàmide (ca) f
• Finnish: klamys (fi)
• French: chlamyde (fr) f

• Italian: clamide (it) f
• Russian: хламида (ru) (xlamída) f 

See also

• peplos, peplum
• exomis
• himation
• chiton