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chiton

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chi=ton

CIDE DICTIONARY

chitonn. [Gr. a chiton (in sense 1).].
  •  An under garment among the ancient Greeks, nearly representing the modern shirt.  [1913 Webster]
  •  One of a group of gastropod mollusks, with a shell composed of eight movable dorsal plates. See Polyplacophora.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

chiton, n.
1 a long woollen tunic worn by ancient Greeks.
2 any marine mollusc of the class Amphineura, having a shell of overlapping plates.

Etymology
Gk khiton tunic

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