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Meaning of chlamys | Babel Free

Noun feminine CEFR B1
[ˈkʰɫa.mys]

Definitions

  1. chlamys (a broad, woollen upper garment worn in Greece, sometimes purple, and inwrought with gold, worn especially by distinguished military characters, a Grecian military cloak, a state mantle; hence also, the cloak of Pallas; and sometimes also worn by persons not engaged in war, by, e.g., Mercury, Dido, Agrippina, children, actors, the chorus in tragedy, etc.)
    declension-3, feminine
  2. cloak, cape, robe, mantle
    declension-3, feminine

Examples

“Tandem prōgreditur, magnā stīpante catervā,”

At last [Dido] comes forth, with a large retinue surrounding her, [and she] wears a Sidonian cloak with an embroidered border.

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This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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