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‖ kreˈdemnon Gr. Antiq. [Gr. κρήδεµνον.] Part of a woman's head-dress; a sort of veil of which the ends hung down on each side.
1850J. Leitch tr. C. O. Müller's Anc. Art (ed. 2) 538 Ino-Leucothea has the kredemnon (her regular distinguishing sign..) wound three times round her body. 1865E. Rimmel Bk. Perfumes v. 94 There were many other modes of wearing the hair, such as the strophos, the nimbo, the kredemnon. 1940Times 19 Mar. 6/3 The captains of two East Coast colliers exchanging views..on the merits of their kredemnons. 1959E. Pound Thrones xcvi. 3 κρήδεµνον..κρήδεµνον..and the wave concealed her, dark mass of water. |