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Matron's garment, in old Rome
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stola
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The stola was the traditional garment of Roman women, corresponding to the toga , or the pallium , that was worn by men. The stola was usually woolen. Originally, women wore togas as well, but after the 2nd century BC, the toga was worn exclusively by men, ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Latin, from Greek stole (see stole ). Plural stolae .
Usage examples of stola.
One combed the tresses of her raven-black hair, another took jeweled clasps to fasten a crisp white tunic around her body, and then draped the saffron stola she had selected for the day.
Reaching out to the stola flowing off the head and shoulders of the lovely woman standing next to him, he pulled her into his arms and kissed her.
Locusta, a swarthy, corpulent woman clad in a stola that looked yellow, whether from age or the flaming lamplight Agrippina could not tell.
Poppaea was wearing a thin aquamarine stola, with gilded jewelry to set off tresses of the same golden amber hue.
Agrippina now removed her stola until only a sheer tunic of briefest dimensions hugged the still-lush contours of her body.
Livilla looked down in outrage at her yellow stola, figured with anemones.
She had her long, fawn-colored hair held back with a wide silk ribbon, and she was dressed in Roman palla and stola, both of a soft muted green.
Her bright green gown beneath a gold brocade Roman stola matched and enhanced the color of her eyes.
I idly arranged the heavy folds of the blue brocade and pale green woolen stola draped over it.
Success rode her shoulders better than the yellow brocade stola she fished from her clothes chest.
Etruscan stola, her eyes reflecting back at us the disquieting glaze of her deadness.
It should have been offensive even to his merchant friends and colleagues and sycophants to see the pure and simple white stola draped across both his shoulders, over the expensive and gaudy garments he wore.
This being a state occasion, at least by proxy, every woman attending the festivities wore a stola, and every man a toga, and I was pleased that my sartor had insisted on making one of those for me.
To do that, a woman has to be proud of her body, too, because a stola or tunic or chiton of Kos cotton is so sheer that it is scandalously transparent.
My heart broke at the sight of her slim, lovely body beneath a simple pale gray stola that looked rather threadbare.