chlamys

<font size="-1" face="arial, helvetica"> <p> <strong> <font color="#000066">Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for April 19, 2021 is:</font> </strong> </p> <p> <strong>chlamys</strong> &#149; \KLAM-us\&nbsp; &#149; <em>noun</em><br /> <p><strong>:</strong> a short oblong <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mantle">mantle</a> worn by young men of ancient Greece</p> </p> <p> <strong>Examples:</strong><br /> <p>"Perhaps her effect on him was as despotic and intoxicating as the poets claimed. Rumors reached Rome that he had abandoned his <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/toga">toga</a> for the Greek <em>chlamys</em>; that she reviewed his troops with a bodyguard of <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/praetorians">Praetorians</a>; that he followed her <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/litter">litter</a> humbly on foot…." — <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Cleopatra_s_Nose/2Wy54ZkiFYwC?hl=en&amp;gbpv=1&amp;dq=%22Perhaps+her+effect+on+him+was+as+despotic+and+intoxicating+as+the+poets+claimed%22&amp;pg=PA420&amp;printsec=frontcover">Judith Thurman, <em>Cleopatra's Nose</em>, 2007</a></p> <p>"Ann Moore displays a black-and-white photo in a 1953 issue of Vogue magazine of a woman modeling an elegant silk <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/taffeta">taffeta</a> <em>chlamys</em> with beading and rhinestones." — <a href="https://www.ajc.com/lifestyles/fashion--style/fashion-designer-ann-moore-work-featured-atlanta-history-center/lS0I09c5jHHZyC1zOdvFyL/">Shelia M. Poole, <em>The Atlanta Journal-Constitution</em>, 1 Sept. 2016</a></p> </p> <p> <strong>Did you know?</strong><br /> <p>If you had been a man of ancient Greece, you'd likely have worn a chlamys from time to time. This cloak was a short, oblong <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mantle">mantle</a>, typically made of dark wool, and worn draped over the left shoulder and fastened with a <a href="ht