stola

American  

[stoh-luh] / ˈstoʊ lə /

noun

• stolae,
  plural
• stolas
  plural

1. a long, loose tunic or robe, with or without sleeves, worn by women of ancient Rome.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• stolae
  plural
• stolas
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of stola

1720–30; < Latin < Greek stolḗ; see stole ²

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

stola stolae stolas

White her hair, her dress the ancient palla and stola of white and purple, her jewels, amethysts.

From Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians by Elizabeth Miller

She wore a stola and outer garment of stainless white linen—the perfectly plain badge of her chaste and holy office; while on her small feet were dainty sandals, bound on by thongs of whitened leather.

From A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. by William Stearns Davis

Above this instita was a purple band, which was the only color, other than white, ever used for the stola, except a colored stripe or sometimes gold around the neck.

From Roman Women by Alfred Brittain

She wore a flowing violet-tinted stola, that tumbled in soft, silky flounces down to her ankles, and from beneath it peered the tint of her shapely feet bound to thin sandals by bright red ribbons.

From A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. by William Stearns Davis

Polly, on Orne's right, looked younger and softer in a green stola gown that hazed her barrel contours.

From Operation Haystack by H. R. van Dongen

Their stolae were ornamented with purple bands, and fastened with diamond clasps, while their pallae trailed along the ground.

From The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. by John Lord

To the good gentlemen who poetize concerning grace and the antique, who sigh for togas, stolas, and paludaments, I say, Go to.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October, 1850, Volume I. by

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