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Membra toro deffeta reponunt, Purpureasque super vestes velamina nota Conjiciunt.

From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by School, A Sexton of the Old

At Breslau he wrote the Students’ Latin Song, “Jam nox stellata velamina pandit;” and on his return to France he composed the grand trio in the work while visiting a friend near Rouen.

From The Standard Cantatas Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers by Upton, George P. (George Putnam)

Wool which has been collected and packed in bags is called vellera or velamina, words derived from vellere, to pull, whence it may be concluded that the practice of pulling wool is older than shearing.

From Roman Farm Management The Treatises of Cato and Varro by Harrison, Fairfax