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Definition of Praetextas

Praetextas
Praetexta Pr[ae]*tex"ta, n.; pl. Pr[ae]text[ae], E. Pr[ae]textas. [L. (sc. toga), fr. praetextus, p. p. of praetexere to weave before, to fringe, border; prae before + texere to weave.] (Rom. Antiq.) A white robe with a purple border, worn by a Roman boy before he was entitled to wear the toga virilis, or until about the completion of his fourteenth year, and by girls until their marriage. It was also worn by magistrates and priests.
Praetexta
Praetexta Pr[ae]*tex"ta, n.; pl. Pr[ae]text[ae], E. Pr[ae]textas. [L. (sc. toga), fr. praetextus, p. p. of praetexere to weave before, to fringe, border; prae before + texere to weave.] (Rom. Antiq.) A white robe with a purple border, worn by a Roman boy before he was entitled to wear the toga virilis, or until about the completion of his fourteenth year, and by girls until their marriage. It was also worn by magistrates and priests.

Meaning of Praetextas from wikipedia

- The praetexta or fabula praetexta was a genre of Latin tragedy introduced at Rome by Gnaeus Naevius in the third century BC. It dealt with historical...
- puberty and legal "coming of age", at around 15 years of age or more. Toga praetexta: a white toga with a broad purple stripe on its border, worn over a tunic...
- Binomial name Ormetica sypilus (Cramer, [1777]) Synonyms Sphinx sypilus Cramer, [1777] Automolis saturata Walker, 1856 Eucyrta praetexta Felder, 1874...
- The drapery became more intricate and structured over time. The toga praetexta, with a purple or purplish-red stripe representing inviolability, was...
- Panegyra praetexta is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Nigeria. The wingspan is about 18.5 mm. The species name refers to the...
- Maxillaria praetexta is a species of orchid endemic to Venezuela (Carabobo). Wikimedia Commons has media related to Maxillaria praetexta. v t e...
- Historians do not know who wrote the only extant example of the fabula praetexta (tragedies based on Roman subjects), Octavia, but in former times it was...
- priests, and citizen's children were entitled to a purple-bordered toga praetexta. Triumphal generals wore an all-purple, gold-embroidered toga picta, ****ociated...
- Scedella praetexta is a species of tephritid or fruit flies in the genus Scedella of the family Tephritidae. Congo, Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, Tanzania...
- of moth in the family Gelechiidae containing the single species Darlia praetexta. It was described by J. F. Gates Clarke in 1950. It is only found in Argentina...