polos

[ pol-os ]

noun,plural pol·oi [pol-oi]. /ˈpɒl ɔɪ/.
  1. a tall, cylindrical headdress represented, especially on statutes, as worn by women in ancient Greece.

Origin of polos

1
First recorded in 1840–50, polos is from the Greek word pólos axis

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