Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An ample outer tunic or dress worn by Roman women over the under-tunic or chemise: it fell as low as the ankles or feet, and was gathered in around the waist by a girdle.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Rom. Antiq.) A long garment, descending to the ankles, worn by Roman women.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
traditional garment ofwomen inAncient Rome , corresponding to thetoga worn by men.
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Examples
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The stola was a loose garment, gathered in and girdled at the waist with a deep flounce extending to the feet.
Ancient Rome : from the earliest times down to 476 A. D. Robert Franklin Pennell
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After the second century BC, besides tunics, women wore very simple clothes called stola, after the fashions of their Greek contemporaries.
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In Latin "stola" designated the distinctive dress of the matron, and it seems to be used with a suggestion of effeminacy.
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Her garments are the basic chiton, peplos or stola.
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This is the origin of what we have come know as the "broad stole" or stola latior.
Use, History and Development of the "Planeta Plicata" or Folded Chasuble 2009
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What I am speaking of is the planeta plicata and stola latior, or, the folded chasuble and broad stole.
Use, History and Development of the "Planeta Plicata" or Folded Chasuble 2009
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Accordingly, the separate stola latior developed in order to compensate for this, thereby continuing the tradition of this sash-like vestment at particular times of the liturgy.
Use, History and Development of the "Planeta Plicata" or Folded Chasuble 2009
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The following further images of the more ample form of chasuble rolled up, as well as further folded into stola form were found in issue no. 4, 1948, of L'Art d'Eglise (which at the time seems to have been named L'Artisan et les Arts Liturgiques).
Use, History and Development of the "Planeta Plicata" or Folded Chasuble 2009
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Just as the form of the folding of the chasuble changed from the sides to before the breast because of the newer forms, so too did the folding of it yet again into stola form likewise become an issue.
Use, History and Development of the "Planeta Plicata" or Folded Chasuble 2009
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She adjusted her silken stola as Eleazar was shown into her chambers.
Seek 2010
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