praetexta
/pree-tek-stuh/US // priˈtɛk stə //
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Definitions
n.名词 noun
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plural prae·tex·tae [pree-tek-stee]. /priˈtɛk sti/.
- : a white toga with a broad purple border, worn by priests and magistrates as an official costume, and by certain other Romans as ceremonial dress.
- : a similar garment worn by a boy until he assumed the toga virilis, or by a girl until she married.
Examples
Each wore a wreath of corn, a white fillet and the praetexta.
They also wore the toga praetexta, which, though associated by us with secular magistrates, had undoubtedly a religious origin.
Octavia, a late praetexta ascribed to Seneca, was certainly not written by him.
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