Chian

comparative more Chian · superlative most Chian

1. Of or pertaining to Chios, an island in the Aegean Sea.

   More capacious bowls bring hither, boy, and the Chian wine or the Lesbian: or what might restrain this flowing qualm;

   1841, William Jacobs, The self-instructing Latin classic, page 187

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   Tyrian garbs, / Neptunian Albion's high teſtaceous food [i.e., oysters], / And flavour'd Chian wines with incenſe fum'd / To ſlake Patrician thirſt: for theſe, their rights / In the vile ſtreets they proſtitute to ſale; / Their ancient rights, their dignities, their laws, / Their native glorious freedom.

   1740, John Dyer, “The Ruins of Rome. A Poem.”, in Poems. … Viz. I. Grongar Hill. II. The Ruins of Rome. III. The Fleece, in Four Books, London: Printed by John Hughs, for Messrs. R[obert] and J[ames] Dodsley, […], published 1759, →OCLC, pages 42–43

plural Chians

1. A native or inhabitant of Chios.

   Synonyms: Chiot