talaric

English edit

talaric (not comparable)

Ankle-length; reaching to the ankles.
- 1851, Samuel Birch, Charles Thomas Newton, A Catalogue of the Greek and Etruscan Vases in the British Museum:
  Dionysos, clad in a white, talaric chitôn, spotted with black, over which he wears a peplos, his hair ivy-crowned and falling in tresses, his beard long and pointed; before him a female figure, Aproditê, clad in an embroidered, talaric chitôn falling over the girdle in a kolpos, over which hangs the peplos;
- 1897, Archaeologia, Or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity, page 353:
  The drivers appear at first sight to be women, but are in reality meant for young men in talaric chitons or tunics.
- 1964, Robert Boulanger, Greece, page 523:
  His wife, Sterope, is on his l. side; she is of generous proportions, in a talaric tunic folded up over the chest.
Relating to the ankles.
- 1979, Kjell Matre, “Treatment of Fractures with Displacement of the Talaric Portion of the Os Calcis”, in Acta Orthopaedica Scandinavica, volume 50:
  In a series of 24 patients with displaced fractures of the talaric portion of the os calcis, 15 patients were primarily treated conservatively; a few of these patients had early subtalar fusion.