pretexta

Tullus Hostilius, after having subdued the Tuscans, assumed the pretexta or long robe, broadly striped with purple.

Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists George Field

Do you recollect that, while you were still clad in the pretexta, you became a bankrupt?

VII. The Second Oration Against Mark Antony 1906

I cast aside the pretexta, when I was sent to the legions in Asia.

Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero Henryk Sienkiewicz 1881

Nor did he see the remotest possibility of ever making those whose opinion he cared for understand how it had come to pass that he should have acceded to the desire of the villain in the purple, now that his father, by showing himself to the people in the 'toga pretexta', had set the seal to their basest suspicions.

A Thorny Path — Volume 10 Georg Ebers 1867

Nor did he see the remotest possibility of ever making those whose opinion he cared for understand how it had come to pass that he should have acceded to the desire of the villain in the purple, now that his father, by showing himself to the people in the 'toga pretexta', had set the seal to their basest suspicions.

A Thorny Path — Complete Georg Ebers 1867

Nor did he see the remotest possibility of ever making those whose opinion he cared for understand how it had come to pass that he should have acceded to the desire of the villain in the purple, now that his father, by showing himself to the people in the 'toga pretexta', had set the seal to their basest suspicions.

Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works Georg Ebers 1867

_lictors_, who went before him with the _fasces_, and six _lictors_ without the city; he wore also, like the consuls, the _toga pretexta_, or white robe fringed with purple.

Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology For Classical Schools (2nd ed) Charles K. Dillaway