A.upper-garment of wool, finer than χλαῖνα (but gloss on χλαῖνα, Hsch.), worn by women as well as men, Simon.37.12, Hdt.3.139, 140, Phld.Vit.p.21J., etc.; used by old people, Ar.Ec. 848, Antiph.33.3; Μιλησία χ., i. e. of fine wool, Plu.Alc.23, 2.583e; χλανίδα φορεῖν, as a mark of effeminacy, D.36.45, cf. 21.133; “παρθενικαὶ . . χλανίσιν μαλκαῖς κατάθρυπτοι” Eub.108 (hex.), cf. Com.Adesp.338; “σεμνὸς σεμνῶς χλανίδ᾽ ἕλκων” Ephipp.19 (anap.), cf. Anaxil.18.2 (anap.); opp. the τρίβων of the philosophers, Teles p.40H., cf. p.53H.; worn on festive occasions, γαμικὴ χ. a wedding mantle, Ar.Av.1693; “χ. λευκή” Id.Fr.491; used as a blanket, AP5.172（Mel.), Plu.2.989f.
χλα^νίς , ίδος, ἡ,
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.
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