toga virilis

American  

[toh-guh vi-rahy-lis, -ree-, taw-gah wi-ree-lis] / ˈtoʊ gə vɪˈraɪ lɪs, -ˈri-, ˈtɔ gɑ wɪˈri lɪs /

noun

togae viriles plural

1. the white toga assumed by boys in ancient Rome at the end of their 14th year.

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toga virilis British  

/ vɪˈraɪlɪs /

noun

1. (in ancient Rome) the toga assumed by a youth at the age of 14 as a symbol of manhood and citizenship

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• togae viriles
  plural

Etymology

Origin of toga virilis

1590–1600; < Latin toga virīlis; see toga, virile

Example Sentences

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toga virilis

During this period, Mr. Clive assumed the toga virilis, and beheld with inexpressible satisfaction the first growth of those mustachios which have since given him such a marked appearance.

From The Newcomes Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family by Thackeray, William Makepeace

If you want to bathe you walk into the sea as you stand, or hand your toga virilis to the bystanders, if any.

From Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule by Buckley, Robert John

In such schools, if he were not educated at home, the boy remained till he was invested with the toga virilis, or pura.

From Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero by Fowler, W. Warde

Certainly that introduction had not to wait till the toga virilis was taken; though Tertull. de Idol.

From The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus by Fowler, W. Warde

His ambition was, to be counted "a full hand,"—this was the toga virilis, which, once entitled to wear, would make him feel that he was any man's equal.

From The Story of Kennett by Taylor, Bayard