Gr. Antiq. [Gr. κρήδεμνον.] Part of a woman’s head-dress; a sort of veil of which the ends hung down on each side.
1850. Leitch, trans. C. O. Müller’s Anc. Art (ed. 2), 538. Ino-Leucothea has the kredemnon (her regular distinguishing sign …) wound three times round her body.
