χρώς
Etym. χράω1
I. like χρόα (χροιά), "the surface of the body, the skin", Hom.: also "the flesh", opp. to the bone, id=Hom.:—generally, "the body, frame", Pind., Trag.
2. ἐν χροΐ, attic ἐν χρῷ, "close to the skin", ἐν χροΐ κείρειν to shave "close", Hdt.; ἐν χρῷ κεκαρμένος Xen.:—metaph., ξυρεῖ γὰρ ἐν χρῷ τοῦτο it touches one "nearly", comes "home", Soph.; ἐν χρῷ παραπλέειν to sail past "so as to shave or graze", Lat. radere, Thuc.:—absol., ἐν χρῷ (also written ἐγχρῷ or ἐγχρῶ), "near at hand, hard by", Luc.
II. "the colour of the skin, complexion", Hom., Eur.
2. generally, "colour", Aesch.