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χλι^δ-ή , ἡ,
A.delicacy, luxury, effeminacy, “ἐπὶ πλεῖστον χλιδῆς ἀπίκετο” Hdt.6.127; “ἄγαλμα τῆς ὑπερπλούτου χ.” A.Pr.466; “εὐνῆς παροψώνημα τῆς ἐμῆς χ.” Id.Ag.1447; “οἶκος ὀγκωθεὶς χλιδῇ” S.Fr.942; “τρυφή, ἁβρότης, χ.” Pl.Smp.197d; “ἐν χλιδῇ τεθράμμεθα” X.Cyr.4.5.54.
2. wantonness, insolence, “μή τοι χλιδῇ δοκεῖτε μηδ᾽ αὐθαδίᾳ σιγᾶν με” A.Pr.436; “δυσπότμου χάριν χ.” S.OT888 (lyr.).
3. concrete, of luxuries, fine raiment, costly ornaments, etc., E.Ion 26; “μυρίων πέπλων χλιδή” Id.Rh.960: pl., “χλιδὰς πόντος ἥρπασε” Id.Hel. 424; of personal charms, “παρθένων χλιδαῖσιν εὐμόρφοις” A.Supp. 1003; καράτομοι χλιδαί luxuriant hair cut from the head, S.El.52; ζῶμα . . οὐ χλιδαῖς ἠσκημένον luxuriously, richly, ib.452; κόμας ἐμᾶς . . παρθένιον χλιδάν a maiden's pride, E.Ph.224 (lyr.):—Mostly poet. [ι_ only late, Ps.-Phoc.212 (sed leg. χλιδαναῖς).] (Cf. χλοιδᾶν, ONorse glita, glitra, 'glitter', Goth. glitmunjan 'shine bright' (of clothes).)
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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