chlamys

Definitions

A short poncho-like cloak caught up on the shoulder, worn by hunters, soldiers, and horsemen in Ancient Greece.

historical

Equivalents

Examples

“He unfolded the chlamys, stretched it out with both hands before me, and then cast⟳ it over my shoulders.”

“The horse was not in the least like⟳ a Greek horse (nor even a Trojan), and F.M. the Duke of Wellington was not represented with the ensis or short sword in his grasp, the chlamys flying from his shoulder, or the paludamentum, as more suitable for the cool of the English climate (totidem divisos orbe &c.), the kothornos on his leg, the galea slung at the crupper? no reins, and his naked nether-man, not (as in these precious models) seated on the bare back of the bull-necked, square-jawed, dray-limbed steed.”

“A male god stands in three-quarter view⟳ to right, wearing a chlamys fastened at his right shoulder with a round clasp.”

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