Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Plural of
pileus .
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The religious ritual was followed by a public feast β reason enough for the Romans to throw off their cumbersome togas and to don lightweight dressing gowns and pilei soft red caps.
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The religious ritual was followed by a public feast β reason enough for the Romans to throw off their cumbersome togas and to don lightweight dressing gowns and pilei soft red caps.
Roman Holidays: Itβs Saturnalia! at eternallycool.net 2007
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At multum mihi profuit, inquit peregrinus, carpum amento extrahens, e quo pependit acinaces: Loculo manum inseruit; et magna cum urbanitate, pilei parte anteriore tacta manu sinistra, ut extendit dextram, militi florinum dedit et processit.
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At multum mihi profuit, inquit peregrinus, carpum amento extrahens, e quo pependit acinaces: Loculo manum inseruit; et magna cum urbanitate, pilei parte anteriore tacta manu sinistra, ut extendit dextram, militi florinum dedit et processit.
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Next to the Warden, on each side, are two figures in sleeveless copes, tippets and _pilei_, without hoods -- doctors in theology or degrees.
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From the thirteenth century onwards _pilei_, and the overtopping tufts, were of various colours according to the faculties which it was intended to distinguish.
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He pitched forward and fell on his face, his hands outstretched towards the cluster of pilei.
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Figures 131, 132 represent an upper, front, and under view of the pilei
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. George Francis Atkinson 1886
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Peridium, the wall of the puff-balls, etc. Pileus (pl. pilei), the cap of the mushroom.
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. George Francis Atkinson 1886
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Bucrulus idem alatus eaprac ind - dens, defupcr duo pilei, infra thyr - fus, intra coronam royrteam. yR.
Lexicon vniversae rei nvmariae vetervm et praecipve Graecorvm ac Romanorvm: cvm observationibvs ... Johann Christoph Rasche 1785
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