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

Etymology

Origin of stola

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

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

stola stolae stolas

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

"Thus, brother," she replied, drawing a short keen knife from the bosom of her linen stola; and severing the bonds which confined his elbows, she placed it in his hands.

From The Roman Traitor, Vol. 2 by Henry William Herbert

The matron wore a stola, a long tunic girded in broad folds under the breast, and a white palla, a wide upper garment, loosely over her shoulders.

From The Mother of St. Nicholas A Story of Duty and Peril by Grant Balfour

The stola was a white garment with sleeves, which covered only the upper part of the arm; it was fastened above the shoulder with a clasp.

From Roman Women by Alfred Brittain

Time was when I should have given them to Ilia as a border for her stola.

From The Tour A Story of Ancient Egypt by Louis Couperus

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