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chlamydes

chlamydes is the plural of chlamys.

Meaning of chlamys

Noun

chlamys (plural chlamyses or chlamydes)

  1. (historical) A short poncho-like cloak caught up on the shoulder, worn by hunters, soldiers, and horsemen in Ancient Greece.
    • He unfolded the chlamys, stretched it out with both hands before me, and then cast it over my shoulders.1824–1829, Walter Savage Landor, “Æsop and Rhosope”, in Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: […] Taylor and Hessey, […]

Questions about chlamydes

What is chlamydes the plural of?
Chlamydes is the plural of chlamys.

Words near chlamydes in the dictionary

  1. chlaenaceous
  2. chlamidospore
  3. chlamydaemia
  4. chlamydate
  5. chlamydeous
  6. chlamydes
  7. chlamydia
  8. chlamydiacidal
  9. chlamydiae
  10. chlamydial
  11. chlamydially

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